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I'm using an algorithmically generated password. It's long, secure, and I need not remember it. I use random batter-horse-staple-whatever passwords (my own vari
by Aerbil313 3y ago
I'm using an algorithmically generated password. It's long, secure, and I need not remember it. I use random batter-horse-staple-whatever passwords (my own variety of casing and spacing) only in the most important things, like bank or government account and I write them down.
- oskarw85 3y agoThat's insecure because if the password leaks from any site it could be trivially used by attacker in other sites. And your algorithm is not safe at all because password crackers could guess your algo and generate millions of its variations.
- GoblinSlayer 3y agoIt's called deterministic password manager. echo QGiruyN3DCTTUN/OoRdP9WDJh+E amazon|md5sum produces 7c7a50469cf6c97d541956ad06ae0add echo QGiruyN3DCTTUN/OoRdP9WDJh+E facebook|md5sum produces f6bf0d9e5d5b94e095355f4902232084 Feel free to guess the QGiruyN3DCTTUN/OoRdP9WDJh+E part from the output.
- Aerbil313 3y agoNo, I designed it so that the hostname (e.g. Amazon) is not obvious at all from the resulting password. It's all mixed up with unrelated letters and the order of the hostname's letters are mixed up as well.