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How long should a password be?
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<blockquote data-quote="Gangelo" data-source="post: 874133" data-attributes="member: 64716"><p>I don't believe that stolen credentials are being generated by brute force attacks. You must be a high value target for the hacker to spend all the time and effort to brute force your password. If the website database has been breached, complexity & length do not matter. It should only be as long and complex to not be guessed by an outsider.</p><p></p><p>I do the middle solution, fixed 12 characters long with uppercase, lowercase, numbers and special characters generated by my password manager.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Gangelo, post: 874133, member: 64716"] I don't believe that stolen credentials are being generated by brute force attacks. You must be a high value target for the hacker to spend all the time and effort to brute force your password. If the website database has been breached, complexity & length do not matter. It should only be as long and complex to not be guessed by an outsider. I do the middle solution, fixed 12 characters long with uppercase, lowercase, numbers and special characters generated by my password manager. [/QUOTE]
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