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		forkerenok on July 26, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Passwords Evolved: Authentication Guidance for the... Totally sympathize with your comment, but, playing devils advocate, > 26^12 = 9.542895666×10^16 You could say adding 5 special chars "cheaply" doubles (formally) the search space without affecting how many chars users have to memorize.

pishpash on July 26, 2017 | [–]

That's not how entropy works. Yes they've expanded the search space, but not how large the typical set is. The latter is still determined by the user's memory habits.

waynecochran on July 27, 2017 | [–]

Isn't that 5 more characters to memorize? I guess I don't understand.

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