Mastodawn

Tuta Dec 30

Passwords. We all hear “make them strong,” but here’s the real deal: SIZE matters.

A longer password isn’t just better; it’s exponentially harder to crack.

Upgrade your security and better protect your digital identity:

✅️ Create strong and unique passwords.
✅️ Store them in a password manager.

Learn more here: https://tuta.com/blog/minimum-password-length

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Simon Brooke Dec 31

@Tutanota this. On systems which allow long passwords, I'm now using very long phrases (think lines from songs — I'm not actually using lines from songs, but the phrases are of similar length). The benefit is I can remember them WITHOUT a password manager; and if I should forget them, I have a crib — but only I know what that crib is.

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Simon Brooke

@Tutanota There are 96 printable ASCII characters, of which about 60 occur in normal English. So you need a significantly longer normal English phrase (n^60) to achieve equal security to a random password (n^96), but it's much easier to remember.