How Many Different Passwords can be entered in a 128 bit Password Box?
The assumption of the previous section is that every Windows’ character can be entered as a password. Each character needs 8 bits. There are 256 different characters in 8 bits (23). However, not all the 256 different characters in Windows can be typed. About 94 characters are printable (or typable) so if an encryption program does not have the option of entering all of these, then the full capacity cannot be utilised.
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