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by rorrr2 4706 days ago
I think "text" is english + whitespace + punctuation only, whereas "password" is any kind of character.

I didn't create that image, so I'm not 100% sure.

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You're correct. See the original scrypt paper by Percival [1], halfway down page 13, for a description of the categories. The table itself is at the top of page 14.

[1] https://www.tarsnap.com/scrypt/scrypt.pdf