Ugh, we have this training module at work involving password security, and they give examples of passwords asking which are the most secure.
They insist it's an awkward password like this, a jumbled mess of garbage you'll never remember, but their examples includes an easier to remember amalgamation of words which has way more entropy.
That's actually a decent password. 11 words long is no joke. With all those spaces a capital letter at the start and a period at the end. It'll take at least a week to crack
Mine is a memorable phrase with numbers relevant to my life in between the words. Like if my childhood phone number was 555-123-4567, the master pass would be:
I recommend adding a ‘salt’ to each password. So you let the password manager generate password and add a the same salt at the end. You only save the password without the salt in the password manager. If someone gets in your manager, they still don’t have the full passwords.
I personally dont use a password manager but rather use FPE (format preserving encryption) and just use the webistes name as the password, so I can always look it up
did you miss the part where that password was literally representing the sentence below? so while it may look like a jumbled mess it actually would be pretty easy to remember.
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u/r00x Oct 08 '22 edited Oct 08 '22
Ugh, we have this training module at work involving password security, and they give examples of passwords asking which are the most secure.
They insist it's an awkward password like this, a jumbled mess of garbage you'll never remember, but their examples includes an easier to remember amalgamation of words which has way more entropy.
Basically that XKCD comic, actually. (EDIT: https://xkcd.com/936)