Well the more characters you have the higher the entropy of the password and the harder it would be to crack. So when you don’t have to remember the password yourself there’s no reason not to use a very long password if the service you’re using allows it.
Offline password cracking is still very much a thing. They steal the entire password database then crack it offline at their leisure, not live against the regular login.
Several measures are required to defend against this:
Hash seeds defend against rainbow tables.
Password length & complexity as well as using computationally-intensive hash algorithms defend against the brute-force cracking.
Password managers help with length and complexity, sad well as promote not reusing passwords.
Well the more characters you have the higher the entropy of the password and the harder it would be to crack. So when you don’t have to remember the password yourself there’s no reason not to use a very long password if the service you’re using allows it.
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Offline password cracking is still very much a thing. They steal the entire password database then crack it offline at their leisure, not live against the regular login.
Several measures are required to defend against this: