Re:Have I been pwned? Check if your email has been compromis...
by fuzzix on Thursday December 05, 2013 @05:07AM
(#6853557)
I generate passwords with something like:
printf "/" ; openssl rand -base64 32 | sed 's/.$//'
The leading slash was a nice tip someone gave me to not echo if you accidentally paste the password into IRC... Though if the password itself contains a slash then your client won't consider it a command and will echo it anyway, so do what you will.
Anyway, each new account gets a new password you couldn't beat out of me, though you could probably get my password safe phrase, so do what you will.
Generating long passwords like this highlights providers who enforce password length limits. Paypal's limit is ludicrously short. Hetzner's is limited too.
printf "/" ; openssl rand -base64 32 | sed 's/.$//'
The leading slash was a nice tip someone gave me to not echo if you accidentally paste the password into IRC... Though if the password itself contains a slash then your client won't consider it a command and will echo it anyway, so do what you will.
Anyway, each new account gets a new password you couldn't beat out of me, though you could probably get my password safe phrase, so do what you will.
Generating long passwords like this highlights providers who enforce password length limits. Paypal's limit is ludicrously short. Hetzner's is limited too.
edit more guff.