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# Try not to choose a string that represents your identity that could go completely out of date. So, for instance, it may be bad to choose a string that specifies ''only'' your telephone number as your number might change.
# If you want to change your string, do so, but keep track of all your old secret strings. It is best to reveal all of them if you ever want to confirm your identity, as this will establish that you are the same person who used your account from the first moment the committed identity was published.
# Your string should not be short: at least 15 characters. A dedicated attacker could, by brute force, try strings until they find your secret string, but if your string is long enough, that attack would take too long to be practical. If your string is at least 15 characters long, there are around 10<sup>27</sup> strings of that length, or a thousand trillion trillion (and that's just counting alphanumeric strings with spaces).
This template categorizes pages it is used on into [[:Category:Wikipedians with committed identities]].
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