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I would love to see a comparison between where physically and which modifiers are used for each character are, and the strength of a password.

Is a password which is very easy/comfortable to type out physically any more/less strong than another of the same length?

I ask this because I often use a visual pattern on the keyboard for a password and I don't recall which characters they may be, but I recall the pattern in need to type out on a qwerty kb



Depends on how good the pattern is, however entropy is lower all likelihood because the layout of qwerty keyboard is standardised.

Most password crackong dictionary already include common keyboard patterns sich as "qwerfdsazxcv" or variations of it.




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