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Reddit
Reddit requires a minimum of 8 characters and accepts uppercase, lowercase, numbers and symbols, but that minimum is far too weak for an account that may carry years of identity, moderator powers over large communities, private messages and, for some, awards or linked payment. An eight-character password can be cracked offline in hours once its hash leaks through a breach. The practical recommendation in 2026 is a 14-character random string using the full character set, which yields roughly 91.8 bits of entropy and would take centuries of sustained GPU effort to brute-force, making an offline attack computationally infeasible. Generate one below—it is created inside your browser using the Web Crypto API and is never sent to a server. Then enable app-based two-factor authentication (an authenticator app rather than SMS) so a leaked or guessed password cannot, by itself, deliver your account or your mod seat.
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Reddit password rules
Social accounts are used for phishing and identity theft. A unique password and 2FA prevent account takeovers.
The maths is decisive. An 8-character Reddit password, even across the full mixed character set, holds only about 52.4 bits of entropy—within range of an attacker guessing billions of candidates per second against a leaked hash. The recommended 14-character random string raises that to roughly 91.8 bits, and because each additional bit doubles the keyspace, the increase from 52.4 to 91.8 bits expands the attacker's task by well over a trillion-fold. NIST SP 800-63B treats 80 bits as the working threshold for resisting offline attack; the 14-character recommendation surpasses it by more than ten bits, while the minimum falls roughly 28 bits short and is unsuitable for any account worth protecting.
Why Reddit accounts are targeted
Reddit accounts draw attackers because aged accounts and moderator roles carry real leverage: a compromised mod account can vandalise or seize control of large subreddits, while aged accounts with karma are resold for spam, astroturfing and scam campaigns that ride on accumulated trust. In 2018 Reddit disclosed a breach in which attackers bypassed SMS-based two-factor authentication to access some user data, underscoring why app-based 2FA matters. The routine threat is credential stuffing—passwords leaked elsewhere are replayed against Reddit logins, and any reused match is taken over. A unique, high-entropy password plus app-based 2FA shuts down both vectors.
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