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by 29athrowaway 2009 days ago
> NOTE: process-cancel-stingy-garnet is technically a passphrase - basically an easy-to-remember password in comparison to randomized strings like B6fSpxMj&f6DU@5^k

(Word dictionary size)^4 > (Alphabet size)^17

I don't think so

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With a dictionary of 10k words, you can get 1e16 combinations, which seems adequate when used with a deliberately slow hash function like bcrypt.