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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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ReidZB
4706 days ago
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
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[1] https://www.tarsnap.com/scrypt/scrypt.pdf