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Subject: [Discuss] Password managers
From: richard.pieri at gmail.com (Rich Pieri)
Date: Wed, 6 May 2020 13:32:37 -0400
In-reply-to: <2fc76d5b-e5bd-2aa4-7002-7e7b65461d76@borg.org>
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On Wed, 6 May 2020 13:05:58 -0400
Kent Borg <kentborg at borg.org> wrote:

> Except 16+ is overkill for a password. (*Password*, not encryption 
> passphrase--the two are extremely different uses.)

Except... they're not. 16 random (I'm assuming) characters is what
Google use for application passwords. Which are in fact passwords in
their use. That's my base line.

-- 
Rich Pieri

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