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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I recall that I got it wrong in a previous post and was corrected, but let's work out the answer.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Suppose the password can be selected from 26 upper case letters, 26 lower case letters, 10 digits and 8 punctuation marks for a total of 70.<br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">If the password is 1 character there are 70 possibilities.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">If the password is 2 characters there are 70 * 70 = 70 ^2 possibilities.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">If the password is N characters, there are 70^N possibilities.<br></div><div><br></div>
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On Tuesday, April 14, 2020, 8:18:19 PM PDT, Texx <texxgadget@gmail.com> wrote:
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<div><div id="ydp67eba1f7yiv7358868775"><div><div class="ydp67eba1f7yqt6812958410" id="ydp67eba1f7yqt52228"><br clear="none"><div>Re Ricks not explaining how he does his passwords:</div><div>Indeed you should NOT tell us how you do it. Otherwise would be a groos breach of security.</div><div>Dont appologize for being right.</div>...<div><br clear="none"></div><div>Regarding Ricks & Pauls posts, I see a conflict.</div><div>Is it number of pitibilities per digit to the power of the number of digits?</div><div>Or is it number of digits to the power of the number of possibilities per digit?</div><div><br clear="none"></div><br clear="none"></div></div></div></div>
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