Correct Horse Battery Staple: Secure Password Generator

Re:Correct Horse Battery Staple: Secure Password Generator by Symbiote on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @03:55PM (#36050003)

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The second is much easier to remember, and common security measures need to be practical.

Incidentally, I have two small shell functions to generate these. Tweaked slightly:

  < /dev/urandom tr -dc '!-~' | head -c${1:-7}; echo

  for i in `seq 5`; do
    echo -n `grep --perl-regexp '^[a-z]{4,7}$' /usr/share/dict/words | shuf -n 1`
    echo -n ' '
  done

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Re:Correct Horse Battery Staple: Secure Password Generator by fanf2 on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @06:46PM (#36051799)

You should not have to remember more than 2 or 3 passwords, enough to log in to your main computers and password managers. If you have few enough passwords that you use frequently enough, they can be completely random, and there is no need to get creative with “memorable” generation schemes.

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