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by lazide 1587 days ago
The password is not a dictionary word, it’s randomly generated though?
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Yes, it's a randomly generated string with ~90 bits of entropy.

After one guess, I know many fewer of those values could work. Unfortunately, the best known way to test this is to enumerate all of them.

14 character random strings are out of reach; 11 character strings you can enumerate & test them all with a lot of computing.