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> confirmed that “up to 77.5% of passwords,” created this way can be “cracked using a 30% common-word dictionary subset.”

Correct me if I’m wrong, but doesn’t this mean that up to 77.5% of passwords known to be exactly three words can be cracked using a 30% common-word dictionary subset?



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