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Thank you for the audit! The default was chosen as 4 words due to usability concerns with longer passwords or more obscure words, but it is adjustable. The str
by quantum5 6y ago
Thank you for the audit!
The default was chosen as 4 words due to usability concerns with longer passwords or more obscure words, but it is adjustable. The strength meter is yellow at 4 words to indicate the less-than-optimal entropy, but I felt it was better than turning a new user off by making it too hard to remember. But that's a decision I plan on revisiting.
If you are security conscious, you can save a more secure default for yourself (in local storage, nothing is ever transmitted to a server).
- atoponce 6y agoNo problem. I dig the project. Very cool. I would recommend the default be 6 words, and let people choose down to 4, but not lower. At last that way, users know what a "secure default" looks like. Granted, it breaks the four-word "correct horse battery staple" XKCD format, but Randall was in some error with that comic anyway.