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Discussion on: Do password rules impact security?

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Replies for: Right, but it's a trivial difference. A difference more than made up by the fact that all your passwords had to be brute-forced in the full attack ...

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Patrick M •

Also, I'm not sure were OP got 270x... Is my math wrong?

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Dominik Weber Author •

I calculated it for all rules together. 1 lowercase, 1 uppercase, 1 digit, 1 special character.

That yields 96^4 / (26*26*10*34), which is about 370.