Memorable but secure passwords
Choosing a Password Generator
Deciding which password generator to use is no easy task for most of us. Few of us are experts, and sorting through the arguments long enough to develop an informed opinion takes time. I suspect xkcdpass
will be tempting, both because of its association with the comic and its deliberate efforts to make the passwords it generates easier to remember. However, cautious users may want to stay with a more traditional approach to passwords, just in case.
In the end, only one thing is certain: The question of how to produce secure passwords is a problem that is not going away in a hurry.
Infos
- PWGen: https://sourceforge.net/projects/pwgen-win/
- libpwquality-tools: https://debian.pkgs.org/10/debian-main-amd64/libpwquality-tools_1.4.0-3_amd64.deb.html
- gpw: https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=gpw&searchon=names&suite=stable§ion=all
- otp: https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=otp&searchon=names&suite=stable§ion=all
- Diceware: https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=diceware&searchon=names&suite=stable§ion=all
- xkcdpass: https://pypi.org/project/xkcdpass/
- Explanatory comic: https://www.xkcd.com/936/
- eff-long: https://www.eff.org/files/2016/07/18/eff_large_wordlist.txt
- 12Dicts package: http://wordlist.aspell.net/12dicts/
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