22 Mar
2020
22 Mar
'20
4:29 a.m.
On Sat, Mar 21, 2020 at 2:47 PM Dave Horsfall <dave(a)horsfall.org> wrote:
On Sat, 21 Mar 2020, William Cheswick wrote:
"play city carrot is a toy store in tokyo"
was my pass phrase more than a decade ago.... Not quite nonsense, though,
because the Japanese like to use English words for how they look or sound
rather than what they mean. Much like people here choose tattoos for how
they look, not quite understanding they just got "katchup queen gerbil"
emblazoned on their lower back...
Warner
Ron made an insult generator. You can get ten
fresh samples at
https://cheswick.com/insult
Neat! I vaguely remember a similar one posted to Usenet ages ago; ah,
those were the days.
It has about 42 bits of entropy, generating a
nice password that is
probably safe-for-work, unless you work in a very unusual place. A lot
of people use cuss words as passwords.
I read somewhere (Schneier?) that "shocking nonsense" makes for good
passphrases; easily remembered, and hard to guess. And yes, I know about
that XKCD cartoon...