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No, the single word password is based on a dictionary word with some chars replaced by other visually similar chars. That's much less than 8^255.


real complex passwords are more like '"^vmds!w*é$sé550µW"'-à the point of the post was to show the maximum theorical possibilities for both. As many pointed out not all 255 are usually printable and not all 171K words are used then that's for english only and not counting old english and not taking care of possible punctuation




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