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I reset my passwords regularly, so this example doesn't provide access to anything of mine, except my old all in one router's wifi that's been sitting in a box
by DigitallyFidget 5y ago
I reset my passwords regularly, so this example doesn't provide access to anything of mine, except my old all in one router's wifi that's been sitting in a box in my basement for years.
Hun$@ngF0rM3g-K@rp3_W19m
This was a base password I used for about two or three years, altering the W19m ending to be a familiar measurement value for me, like walking 19 meters. It's actually lyrics from a song "Hun sang for meg", from Norwegian band Karpe Diem (song name is "Byduer i dur"). It falls into the problem of replacing letters with alike symbols, but that provides the complexity requirement, while also having enough length to be secure even without doing letter replacements.
My worst passwords are often for the things I should really keep most secure because they have the dumbest restrictions that cripple complexity.
8-16 characters long .. okay, there goes ALL the normal password bases I use, most my passwords are 24-58 characters long.
Only - _ ! . for special characters .. what the actual f**? Why? WHY? This is for my online medical account, WHY!?!?
- kragen 5y ago8 characters of printable ASCII can give you 52.6 bits of security, which is reasonable for many purposes, as explained in more detail in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28103073 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28103073. Things like TzPb(5>1, #Dalx{NQ, or *^uRup@b. The correct-horse-battery-staple approach gives you more memorable versions of these passwords like "and operation sexual players comfortable", "and tape fleet bell mould", or "AUK HOOD LEAN JOT KID".