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I never enter or remember any of the passwords bitwarden generates for me, I have an app and an extension for that.
by mackatap 4y ago
I never enter or remember any of the passwords bitwarden generates for me, I have an app and an extension for that.
- maxyurk 4y agoit's about the master password
- NoahKAndrews 4y agoThis is about the password you use to log into BitWarden itself.
- wkat4242 4y agoBut what if you need to enter it somewhere that doesn't support it? A physical device, a VM that doesn't allow copy and paste, a mobile app without support for copy/paste or password managers... All those scenarios happen for me every couple of weeks and it's what's keeping me from using really long passwords with high complexity.
- pjot 4y agoUsing a passphrase is the way to go. Easy to type, remember, and more secure. Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/936/ https://xkcd.com/936/
- jim02672 4y agoYou're assuming that a) a passphrase is acceptable to the system/app and b) that people can competently pick words for a passphrase. That damn XKCD is overly simplified at best. I really wish people would stop linking to it.
- Toutouxc 4y agoPlease elaborate, how can you pick bad words for a passphrase? (Except obviously a movie title or an everyday sentence) Like, if I go "street bologna drawer sunset fang", did I do well?
- artisticnuke 4y agoPopular movie quotes or lines from books with minor iterations are bad choices. They are somewhere out there and not as safe as one might think. Completely random choice of words is good, but it is not feasible to remember random passphrases for all of your accounts. Other common methods include appending a particular character to each word or alternate words...creating a pattern of sort, but this again makes it difficult to remember, which was the reason why we preferred passphrases instead of passwords in first place.
- aurantia 4y ago> Popular movie quotes or lines from books with minor iterations are bad choices. They are somewhere out there and not as safe as one might think. In English. Not all books in all languages ever published are "somewhere out there".
- kadoban 4y ago> Not all books in all languages ever published are "somewhere out there". I mean, they mostly are or can be. What's the point on relying on "nobody happened to catalog the book I copied my passphrase from"? Are you going to check every week that nobody uploaded it to an archive site? There's easier schemes that don't rely on that.
- aurantia 4y agoFor smaller languages the steps would be: - Somebody would have to digitize an old book without mistakes. - Somebody would have to publish it online. - Somebody would have to scrape and archive that. - Somebody would have to transliterate it to Latin script. - That transliteration would also have be the same transliteration I'm using. It's unlikely it will be done for a lot of languages. > There's easier schemes that don't rely on that. Remembering random words is hard. This is how we got into this in the first place.
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- mmiyer 4y agoBitwarden also allows you to generate a random passphrase, which is pretty nice for those situations where you want to be able to manually type in the password.
- lrem 4y agoBitwarden generates good pass phrases though.
- kadoban 4y agoThe password in question here is the master password for your bitwarden account. Bitwarden can't remember that for you.