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jandrese
on Nov 23, 2016
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NIST’s new password rules – what you need to know
64 lowercase English letters is 10^92 bits of entropy, which is around the same number of atoms in the universe. Eventually the laws of physics put an upper bound on how much entropy you need to avoid brute force attacks.
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