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Comment by gruez

6 years ago

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

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