Re:Don't give away historic details about yourself
by xur17 on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @04:58PM
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I also generate additional passwords, but after reading my additional password over the phone to an agent that pretty clearly would have accepted (it's giberish), I've since started storing what I deem to be a reasonable answer to the question. A random movie for the 'favorite movie' question, random name for best friend, etc.
Re:Don't give away historic details about yourself
by roywiggins on Wednesday April 11, 2018 @10:23AM
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That's probably the best solution. It would be nice to have a dictionary of answers to these sorts of things (a dictionary of names, a dictionary of cities, etc) to quickly generate these in a truly random way to try and eke a little bit more entropy out of it.
Re:Don't give away historic details about yourself
by enobrev on Wednesday April 11, 2018 @06:16AM
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That's a good point, and a great reason to try the "make pronounceable" option on my password generator.
Re:Don't give away historic details about yourself
by coatmatter on Wednesday April 11, 2018 @07:08AM
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KeePassXC comes with a Password Generator button in the toolbar and has a Passphrase option. Just max out the word count and choose your new favourite for each account.
You have to be a bit careful with that, since some banks like to use those answers as "second factors"* when you call them. So I've gotten in the habit of using diceware-style passphrases for those, as those work over the phone better than pure white noise passwords.
*extreme air quotes