Timeline for What is your way to create good passwords that can actually be remembered?
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| Dec 5, 2016 at 16:42 | comment | added | Ajedi32 | This is a pretty decent method, but I prefer to avoid it because it's difficult to accurately estimate the entropy of passwords generated using this method, and thus difficult to be sure of just how secure your password actually is. Diceware passwords are much easier to get an accurate entropy estimate of. | |
| Oct 16, 2014 at 13:30 | comment | added | o0'. | "But I can't bother to lock my door!" ok, burglars will come, no problem for me. | |
| Oct 16, 2014 at 13:30 | comment | added | o0'. | @qbi if a user can't be bothered to enter a long password, than that user doesn't deserve to be safe. | |
| Apr 28, 2014 at 5:31 | comment | added | Nacht | The only problem with this method (besides limitations on the size of the password) is the security risk of someone watching you type it - something meaningful to you and nonsense to someone else (like taking the first letter of each word) is the only way to combat that particular risk. Then again, the comment above mine helps as well. | |
| Jun 10, 2013 at 11:22 | comment | added | ripper234 |
Choose one of the words in the sentence and intentionally misspell it - My favourite mounth of the year is the 3rd!. Still easy to remember, and increases the security quite a bit.
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| Jan 26, 2012 at 19:58 | comment | added | Mei | Some passwords are truncated: no matter how long your password is, the password is truncated before it is used for authentication. Linux and UNIX user passwords have been guilty of this; other passwords are probably guilty of this as well. | |
| Sep 19, 2011 at 1:18 | comment | added | Kibbee | Actually, 52^8 yields 53,459,728,531,456, while 2000^5 yields 32,000,000,000,000,000. That's 3 orders of magnitude bigger for a "sentence" of only 5 words. Plus, most of us while we commonly only use 2000 words, have a vocabulary much bigger. Plus the sentence in the original post uses 9 words, one of which isn't even a word one would be able to see in the dictionary. | |
| Feb 11, 2011 at 8:50 | comment | added | growse | I've not done the maths, but I would imagine if you include a good smattering of punctation marks, numbers and non-regular words, the combination count is quite high. Would be interesting to see someone sit down and work it out properly though (I'm not mathsy enough...) | |
| Feb 11, 2011 at 0:44 | comment | added | Dave | Isn't that less safe than using a password? Assuming you use small and capital letters and 8 characters you have 52^8 combinations, compared to the ~2000 words we use in common speech raised to the power of 4/5? | |
| Feb 9, 2011 at 3:46 | comment | added | Bradley Kreider | You can do that and pick the first letter or last letter of each word. | |
| Dec 3, 2010 at 15:19 | comment | added | sdanelson | If they can touch type it really isn't that difficult. The biggest problem is that most system place absurd restrictions on length or they won't accept spaces. | |
| Nov 22, 2010 at 14:53 | comment | added | qbi | Where do you use it? A system where you have to log in often? IMHO most users don't want to enter 42-character phrase. ;-) | |
| Nov 21, 2010 at 22:31 | history | answered | growse | CC BY-SA 2.5 |