How Guessable Is Your Password?
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6 min readAug 30, 2018
Go on … admit it … if you are forced to have a number in your password … you put it at the end? If you put an uppercase letter in your password … you put it at the start? Well you might not, but most people do, which means a hash cracker can target a limited range of character sets for their cracking.
If you select a password with six characters and only use lowercase letters then we have 26⁶ passwords…