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My password generator can make pronounceable nonsense words. It has worked ok so far. Some of them are embarrassing though.

• fragmede 5y ago
  My password generator (or just do it manually) can generate word passwords like correct-horse-battery-staple using real words, which is probably a bit easier to read over the phone.
  • Symbiote 5y ago
    grep --perl-regexp '^[a-z]{4,7}$' /usr/share/dict/words | \ shuf -n 5 | tr '\n' ' ' Although maybe just 2 or 3 words would be best for avoiding a support agent skipping the question. bless clench moraine
    • ninjin 5y ago
      Nice one there, much simpler than my nearly POSIX one (I think I rely on a GNU sed extension, but it was years since I wrote this): shuf /nix/store/ny99jkpl3r9zgkkdv5apprzl18i8rb4m-scowl-2019.10.06/share/dict/wbritish.txt \ | grep '^[A-Za-z]\+$' \ | head -n 3 \ | sed -e 's|\(.\)\(.*\)|\u\1\2|g' \ | tr -d '\n' \ | sed -e 's|$|\n|g' Which gives you for example: OmegasInsentientPantheons I only use this for “secret” questions though, not passwords.