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High-entropy secret resistant to guessing and cracking.

Definition

A strong password has sufficient length and entropy to resist online guessing and offline cracking, and it is unique per account.

In plain English High-entropy secret resistant to guessing and cracking.

Why this matters

Why it matters: Password strength directly affects the feasibility of brute-force attacks and credential reuse exploitation.

Example

Example: A 16+ character randomly generated password stored in a password manager.