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> I'll generally generate additional passwords with my PW manager for each question and store them there. You have to be a bit careful with that, since some ba
by roywiggins 9y ago
> I'll generally generate additional passwords with my PW manager for each question and store them there.
You have to be a bit careful with that, since some banks like to use those answers as "second factors"* when you call them. So I've gotten in the habit of using diceware-style passphrases for those, as those work over the phone better than pure white noise passwords.
*extreme air quotes
- xur17 9y agoI also generate additional passwords, but after reading my additional password over the phone to an agent that pretty clearly would have accepted (it's giberish), I've since started storing what I deem to be a reasonable answer to the question. A random movie for the 'favorite movie' question, random name for best friend, etc.
- roywiggins 9y agoThat's probably the best solution. It would be nice to have a dictionary of answers to these sorts of things (a dictionary of names, a dictionary of cities, etc) to quickly generate these in a truly random way to try and eke a little bit more entropy out of it.
- enobrev 9y agoThat's a good point, and a great reason to try the "make pronounceable" option on my password generator.
- coatmatter 9y agoKeePassXC comes with a Password Generator button in the toolbar and has a Passphrase option. Just max out the word count and choose your new favourite for each account.