The Sophisticate’s Guide to Passwords
Despite admitting that...<p>&gt; Attackers use programs that try all words in a password dictionary, which is typically just a file of commonly used words in a given written language. These programs will even use combinations of these words, and permutations based on common replacements of letters with numbers or symbols<p>The author then goes on to say...<p>&gt; Compare the password &quot;B5s9z-Qx&quot; with the password &quot;SophisticatedpwsRock!!&quot;.... The first would be 72⁸, or 722,204,136,308,736 possible passwords. This would take a desktop PC roughly 3 days to crack. Compare that with our second password, which would be 72²² or 72,663,267,215,268,556,211,671,874,973,277,863,542,784, that’s a lot of possibilities.<p>This is a contradiction. A 10-letter word does not add as much entropy as 10 random characters. If you assume it does, you will cripple your security.<p>Do not follow this advice on passwords.