> Researchers have increasingly come to the consensus that the best passwords are at least 11 characters long, randomly generated, and made up of upper- and low

> Researchers have increasingly come to the consensus that the best passwords are at least 11 characters long, randomly generated, and made up of upper- and lower-case letters, symbols (such as a %, *, or >), and numbers. Those traits make them especially hard for most people to remember. in other words, the only good password is a randomly generated bitstring (just like a key!) represented as some weird almost but not quite total subset of 8-bit ascii that was based around some weak and wild assumptions that human generated text is not guessable. this is getting out of hand.