Brian Candler:
Furthermore, despite consuming so much entropy, it doesn't even guarantee that every password generated has at least one upper-case, lower-case, digit and symbol - i.e. the password may still be rejected by many websites!

Websites that impose such complexity requirements are not following the NIST Digital Authentication Guidelines:

Memorized secrets SHALL be at least 8 characters in length if chosen by the subscriber; memorized secrets chosen randomly by the CSP or verifier SHALL be at least 6 characters in length and MAY be entirely numeric. Since the CSP or verifier may disallow some choices of memorized secrets based on their appearance on a blacklist of compromised values, the subscriber SHALL choose a different memorized secret if a choice is rejected. No other complexity requirements for memorized secrets SHOULD be imposed; a rationale for this is presented in Appendix A.

https://pages.nist.gov/800-63-3/sp800-63b.html
https://pages.nist.gov/800-63-3/sp800-63b.html#appA

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