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by aasasd 1987 days ago
So I figured I'd go read what's ‘password spraying’ that you mention:

> Password spray is the opposite of brute-forcing. Adversaries acquire a list of accounts and attempt to sign into all of them using a small subset of the most popular, or most likely, passwords.

(https://www.microsoft.com/security/blog/2020/04/23/protectin...)

Are you saying that your fifty-character passwords are common ones?

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Sorry, I've been inexact in my usage of the two terms. I'll endeavor to do better.