What is a strong password,
how do you know if a password is strong and how do you pick one? That’s what this is going to be about. Passwords are for security, they’re used to certify that one who has knowledge of the correct password has access to the system/information. That’s a very wide description and may thus result in all kinds of different levels of security that are needed. Does this password give you access to your bank account or only to a share with your music collection on your home LAN? What attackers can we expect, or more specifically how does one attack a password? This is the most important, because if we know that, we know what our passwords are up against.
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