> if you specify your password is 20 character mixture of cases, numbers, and punctuation, wouldn't you mean *random* characters?
Absolutely not. A password, that contains upper- and lowercase letters, numbers, and punctuation symbols, just contains these CLASSES of characters, meaning "at least one of each class".
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Date: 2023-04-18 10:23 am (UTC)Absolutely not. A password, that contains upper- and lowercase letters, numbers, and punctuation symbols, just contains these CLASSES of characters, meaning "at least one of each class".