Show HN: Wordentropy – Pseudo-grammatical passphrase generator

Re:Show HN: Wordentropy – Pseudo-grammatical passphrase gene... by psychometry on Friday November 14, 2014 @12:51PM (#8608419)

Every internet user has so many passwords that the age of trying to remember passwords is over. You pretty much either have to reuse passwords (dumb) or use a password manager. Given that any technically literate person will choose the latter option, grammatical passphrases provide no benefit over random characters.

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Re:Show HN: Wordentropy – Pseudo-grammatical passphrase gene... by TBastiani on Friday November 14, 2014 @12:53PM (#8608434)

Every so often, for instance when I am setting up my password manager on a new device I find myself reading the password from one device and typing it on the next. This would make that process much easier/saner. The password is effectively much easier to read in and type back.

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Re:Show HN: Wordentropy – Pseudo-grammatical passphrase gene... by psychometry on Friday November 14, 2014 @02:08PM (#8608890)

What kind of off-brand password manager doesn't let you transfer your password database to a new device? You should only ever need to remember/type in the master password.

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Re:Show HN: Wordentropy – Pseudo-grammatical passphrase gene... by TBastiani on Monday November 17, 2014 @11:49AM (#8619005)

KeepassX. And I'd actually rather handle password-file sharing myself as I'm not super comfortable with everyone having access to my password-file even though it's encrypted. Also the fact that my main platforms are Linux and Android removes quite a lot of options as far as password managers go.

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Re:Show HN: Wordentropy – Pseudo-grammatical passphrase gene... by pavel_lishin on Friday November 14, 2014 @02:08PM (#8608893)

Do you mean that you store the password to your password manager in another password manager?

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Re:Show HN: Wordentropy – Pseudo-grammatical passphrase gene... by TBastiani on Monday November 17, 2014 @11:49AM (#8619007)

No, I don't. But I share my password-file over dropbox and my dropbox password is managed by my password manager.

So, sort-of, I guess.

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