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Doesn't it allow easier brute force?
by worldsavior 3y ago
Doesn't it allow easier brute force?
- Sohcahtoa82 3y agoIf they know you used this to generate it, yes. Also, the default of only 20 bits of entropy is not nearly enough, IMO. That's only ~1M options. If you're using this to generate a password that foolishly gets hashed using something like SHA-256, even a mobile phone from 15 years ago could have it cracked in seconds. A modern CPU would crack it before your finger even let go of the Enter key. Again though, the information above does require that the attacker knows you used this to generate your password. Without that knowledge, the 20+ character passwords it generates are quite secure, especially if you modify them.
- onion90 3y agoIt probably depends on the reference point. If I now use 4 words (2*2 rhyming words) instead of passphrases with 2 words, then the password is more secure than before (even if the attacker knows for sure that I use a rhyming password). Besides, there is the rhyme scheme, which is not necessarily known to the attacker. The idea is fun. I'm just not sure it helps much in practice. If I can't remember the exact words, the rhyme makes me only marginally less lost than without it.