Xkcd Password Generator

Re:Xkcd Password Generator by bnegreve on Thursday August 11, 2011 @10:29AM (#2872991)

You can't test 175000^4 = 937890625000000000000 passwords.

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Re:Xkcd Password Generator by ErrantX on Thursday August 11, 2011 @10:38AM (#2873048)

Ahem. This is why I should check my numbers, I'm told it is a 17,500 word dictionary (and we check 3 re-combinations). Sorry about that :S

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Re:Xkcd Password Generator by bnegreve on Thursday August 11, 2011 @11:11AM (#2873194)

Ah ! Now, I agree that if everyone follow this advice, it's going to be fairly easy to crack every password based on a small set of simple words.

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