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True or false: a 15 character password consisting of only lower case letters is stronger than a 13 character password consisting of a combination of lower case, upper case, numbers, and special characters?
True
False
The 13 character password has a much larger keyspace than the 15 character password would. Having a higher keyspace generally means that it would be harder to crack with a bruteforce attack. To calculate: (num of possibilities) ^ (num of chars) = brute force possible combinations. In this case, 26 ^ 15 = 1.26 x 10 ^21 || 72 (lowcase + upcase + nums + spec chars) ^ 13 = 1.4 x 10 ^ 24 EDIT why is it just a couple questions ago it was noted that the longer password was harder to crack than the slightly shorter password that was more complex? EDIT: because that question was wrong :)
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