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A is a realistic case of security by obscurity - there's a sizable amount of people who believe that to be secure.

B is in my opinion much less realistic: very few people believe a password two bytes long (or better, with two bytes of entropy) to be secure. Even a trivial password like "TelnetSucks" scores 31 bits of entropy with https://apps.cygnius.net/passtest/.



That app doesn't seem to be great. It complains when a password contains spaces or is longer than 16 words.




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