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Steve Gibson is not considered expert:

(http://radsoft.net/rants/20010714,00.shtml)

(http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20060113111825193)

(http://attrition.org/errata/charlatan/steve_gibson/)

etc etc.

Is there something specifically wrong with the concept of password haystacks? I understand it as "force the attacker to search an extremely large potential keyspace." The tool I linked to simply calculates the keyspace that a given candidate password is in.

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