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But you have to agree that memorizing your password is more secure than writing it down.
by doctoboggan 6y ago
But you have to agree that memorizing your password is more secure than writing it down.
- ocdtrekkie 6y agoOf course. But not everyone is good at that.
- codetrotter 6y agocorrect battery horse staple, but longer and sensible but still unique, and optionally without space. Make up a sentence that makes sense to you, and remove all the spaces, use all lowercase and no special characters. Forgettable: 5uP3r53kr17P455w00r[)!!11One Memorable: ilikestartrekandhamandbeans I used to have full-disk encryption on one of my machines using a password of the forgettable kind. But then the machine had an uptime of months until a power outage, and I realized that while I was fairly sure of the sentence I had no possibility of remembering all of the uppercase and lowercase and symbol and number substitutions. I lost quite a bit of data that day. After that I began using a sentence that makes sense to me but which is not from a book or anything like that for the FDE on my desktop and external hard drives, and I use the pass phrase frequently. Simplicity and repetition is the key to remember your master password. As for websites I use a password manager, and I sometimes generate passwords with my own diceware software https://github.com/ctsrc/Pgen https://github.com/ctsrc/Pgen but most often I am on my phone or on my laptop and then I use the password generator of the password manager that comes with those Apple devices. I haven’t lost any more data since switching to managing my data encryption and my passwords this way.