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Re:Finally: A usable and secure password policy backed by sc... by wiml on Sunday November 08, 2020 @12:40AM (#25023350)
If they're "reaching into the edges of their vocabulary" they're doing it wrong anyway. People are terrible random number generators. Don't do that. Use an actual random number generator to select a sequence of words from a list.
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Re:Finally: A usable and secure password policy backed by sc... by codetrotter on Sunday November 08, 2020 @01:22AM (#25023550)
> Use an actual random number generator to select a sequence of words from a list

I wrote a program to do this for me which I myself use, and anyone else is free to download and use it (open source, ISC license) :D

It supports a few different options, including one that will tell you what the passphrase entropy would be.

https://github.com/ctsrc/Pgen

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