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it's a well known fact that "password1" is not a strong password, "password2" will get you laughed at as you get hacked, and so it stands to reason that simply incrementing the trailing number will not result in a secure password.
HOWEVER, the string "password" prepended to a strong password (such as a 128 digit random number) does not make the strong password into a weak password, so I theorize that there exists a threshold after which incrementing password1 always results in strong passwords
@aeva Your hypothesis is similar to the "Least Interesting Number" paradox, as if the "after this, the password becomes secure" number were documented, then password crackers would immediately add to their databases the word "password" followed by the documented "password becomes secure" number
@aeva this then creates an infinite descent problem, as your "secure after this number" would have to be incremented by one, after which point the password crackers would scrape your webpage and add the new number to their databases as well,
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@aeva all 8-character passwords are just the password “password” encoded with a one-time pad