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		sejje on June 4, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: UK government's password checker sends plaintext p... It's pretty unfair to compare against a 5-digit password.

OscarCunningham on June 4, 2014 [–]

Not really. The question was whether words are more or less secure for a given level of ease of memorisation. I'd say 5 random characters are about as easy to memorise as 4 random words.

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