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Good but do throw a random character in there, otherwise your passphrase is essentically a few characters long in a (larger) alphabet—ie, a dictionary sorted by most frequently used words. Or at least use some uncommon words.

    70^8   = 576480100000000   // 8 chars of upper/lower case, numbers, symbols
    4000^4 = 256000000000000   // 4 words pulled from a vocabulary of 4000 words

    word          rank
    ------------- ----
    correct       1808
    horse         1286
    battery       3221
    staple        (not in the first 4000)
https://xkcd.com/936/ (For those who were wondering about the context.)



> Good but do throw a random character in there

There is, but that part isn't the important part. The important part is using a long pass phrase rather than a multi digit number.




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