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Ah, so don't use any of the 300,000,000 words in their dictionary - https://www.cloudcracker.com/dictionaries.html

Any simple password generator (say, Apple's Keychain, or pwgen) should be able to generate a non-dictionary key of length 12-16 characters in a few seconds that would withstand this and most similar techniques for the next few years.



Where did you get 300m words from? Reading that page, I gathered they had many billion words in their dictionary at the highest price...


The big sticker in the top right hand corner of the main page (https://www.cloudcracker.com/css/images/sticker3.png).




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