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		glenra on Aug 11, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Xkcd Password Generator >must not consist solely of lowercase letters Which is exactly the sort of terrible restriction xkcd is criticizing.

bryanlarsen on Aug 12, 2011 [–]

A space is not a lowercase letter, so the xkcd password would pass my test.

pedro_a on Aug 12, 2011 | [–]

Then the space would be "the obeisance to the stupid website piece". Note that the entropy of "correct horse battery staple" is only one bit more than "correcthorsebatterystaple".

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