Comment by 05
7 years ago
bits usually add exponential complexity, so that '10% more' security might mean a password that's a million times harder to brute force..
7 years ago
bits usually add exponential complexity, so that '10% more' security might mean a password that's a million times harder to brute force..
10% more refers to the character length for the same amount of security, so that's already baked in. eg. you can get a 128-bit entropy password with 22 alphanumeric characters, or 20 characters with all printable characters.
calculations here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20678529