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Dylan16807yesterday at 7:01 PM1 replyview on HN

Random is important, character set not so much. And yes when I say 2 characters I mean random ones. Even 26x26 is plenty to compensate. Or you can add one random word.


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tptacekyesterday at 7:12 PM

We're both saying the same thing: you can make the KDF irrelevant if you (as you just specified) use an AES key as an input. The entire point of KDF is that humans don't do that.

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