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This was made clear many moons ago by the now famous xkcd strip https://www.xkcd.com/936/ https://www.xkcd.com/936/

• DenisM 11y ago
  My innovation :) is to prevent users from selecting their own words, so that we can actually guarantee the entropy required. Otherwise a Markov chain will tear it to pieces.
  • cuckcuckspruce 11y ago
    You mean like Diceware[1], which has been around since at least 2000? [1] http://world.std.com/~reinhold/diceware.html http://world.std.com/~reinhold/diceware.html
    • DenisM 11y ago
      Good stuff. All we need now is to marry it with a password manager so that it generates random passwords based on this one passphrase and then autofills the web forms for you.
  • falcolas 11y ago
    Also done frequently in the past, see: http://world.std.com/~reinhold/diceware.html http://world.std.com/~reinhold/diceware.html Some intrepid child got internet famous recently for making some money by doing this for you.