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Re:Finally: A usable and secure password policy backed by sc... by throwaway201103 on Sunday November 08, 2020 @02:04AM (#25023737)
I tried the demo, and could not come up with a 12-character password that got a good score and was not just impossible-to-remember random jibberish.

I'll stick with generated pseudo-random gibberish and a password manager.

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Re:Finally: A usable and secure password policy backed by sc... by codeduck on Sunday November 08, 2020 @03:40AM (#25024171)
`openssl rand n | base64` is my go to
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Re:Finally: A usable and secure password policy backed by sc... by zeeZ on Sunday November 08, 2020 @05:13AM (#25024616)
You can use openssl rand -base64 n to save a pipe.
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