If your password is required to only be a number, it has the smallest “girth” possible at only 10 possibilities for a length of one.
If your password is required to only be a letter, it has more “girth” at only 26 possibilities for a length of one.
If your password is required to only be a symbol, it’s probably about the same “girth” as letters.
You could make the girth increase on your one-character password by requiring it to be any of those above, but that’s still just about 60 options.
But length increases the security of a password exponentially. So if your password is required to be two numbers, you’re already of 100 options. Require only one more digit, and you’re at 1000, even with only ten choices per digit.
So girth is far less important than length when it comes to passwords.
I’ll bite. Serious answer.
If your password is required to only be a number, it has the smallest “girth” possible at only 10 possibilities for a length of one.
If your password is required to only be a letter, it has more “girth” at only 26 possibilities for a length of one.
If your password is required to only be a symbol, it’s probably about the same “girth” as letters.
You could make the girth increase on your one-character password by requiring it to be any of those above, but that’s still just about 60 options.
But length increases the security of a password exponentially. So if your password is required to be two numbers, you’re already of 100 options. Require only one more digit, and you’re at 1000, even with only ten choices per digit.
So girth is far less important than length when it comes to passwords.
Oh, and making the font bigger has no effect.
It makes me feel like a big man, though :(
Depends if font size is also counted as the password
Username: lemmycommenter
Password: <p>p@sswerd</p>
Edit: was trying to do something funny but lemmy removes css style tags from comments I guess
That’s the equivalent of making your pickup truck bigger.
I was thinking trimming and a good unsticking before the reveal
Yeah, but counterpoint
60^10 = 6e17
10^10 = 1e10
That’s 60 million times more options. So yeah, girth matters.
Exactly what I was thinking. Girth is just the number of possible characters. A very crude measure of password strength could thus be length x girth.