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There has been previous work on this, yes. It required a dictionary of suggested words. That would make it useful for snooping most typing, but not for randomly generated passwords. This new technique doesn't seem to have that limitation.
Okay, gotcha. I didn't look that deeply into it previously so I never realized how limited that was
So about those people that run around saying passphrases are better... 😅