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Answer» There are sites that will generate RANDOM strings to be USED for making passwords. Chop these into smaller blocks and put they together to make NEW strings the are non-repeating and non-predictable and qualify as pseudo-random sequences. http://random.org Or, try tis one: Quote https://www.grc.com/passwords.htm For a general overview or random strings: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_password_generator It is much, much more difficult to crack random strings that dictionary words. Most of the English words you know are less than 50,000 * words. Random strings have beyond millions of m millions of combinations. (* One source says there are half a million words in English. If you could recall one word EVERY ten seconds, how long would it take to do half a million. Never mind!)Random passwords aren't as good as a strong passphrase. While dictionary crackers might take a word or two, and maybe stick a few numbers on the end, it's unlikely that a dictionary cracker is GOING to try to build a passphrase. For example "Bear Drinking Coca-Cola" could be considered relatively strong because the dictionary in question would need brand names like "Coca-Cola" in it, as well as having N^3 different permutations to go through (where N is the size of the dictionary). Of course a random password is just as strong against attack. The difference is that "Bear Drinking Coca-Cola" is a *censored* of a lot easier to remember than WLiWxhuD2DAB. You can build a mnemonic for it, why not just use that longer mnemonic as the password in the first place?I just write down all my passwords. I really can't bothered remembering all 35 of them. I also group passwords, though. I use incorrect... That way every OS and app i use reminds me what my password is in case i forget...The problem with random passwords is that nobody can remember them, so you end up with a monitor covered with sticky notes with your passwords written on them. Quote from: Raptor on February 07, 2012, 11:28:53 AM I just write down all my passwords. I really can't bothered remembering all 35 of them. I also group passwords, though.Another twist... Password Bird |
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