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Brute force protection (rytter.me)
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[–] Clent@lemmy.world 13 points 8 months ago

The rainbow table would have to include every four word combination. At around half a million words in the English dictionary, that's not a small number.

As another XKCD comic illustrates, it's cheaper to use a wrench.