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You multiply the entropy of the previous word by the added entropy of the new symbol. This grows exponentially!

Extra character classes can help if you're stuck needing to make a really short password for some reason, but if you're randomly generating each symbol anyway, just tossing a few more on the end is *far* more effective. You massively increase the brute force search space with each additional symbol.



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