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I wasted all my generational luck for this (files.catbox.moe)
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[โ€“] Kolanaki@pawb.social -1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

If the password was forced to be a specific length and could not be shorter or longer, it would be the same as that. But they're not usually forced to be a specific length. They do have bounds, but that also makes it so there are fewer possible combinations to guess.