22 Mar
2020
22 Mar
'20
12:01 a.m.
On Sun, 22 Mar 2020, Dave Horsfall wrote:
On Sat, 21 Mar 2020, William Cheswick wrote:
I've used non-English words in my passwords, as well as spoonerisms.
-uso.
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...
-- Dave