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Re: [Cryptography] Today's XKCD is on password strength.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam Fields)
Wed Aug 10 14:50:48 2011
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From: Adam Fields <cryptography23094893@aquick.org>
In-Reply-To: <20110810071207.005f4992@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 10:30:59 -0400
To: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com
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On Aug 10, 2011, at 10:12 AM, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> Today's XKCD is on password strength. The advice it gives is pretty
> good in principle...
>
> http://xkcd.com/936/
You still need a password manager to remember which of the dozens of easily-remembered passwords you used, so you might as well just use the 20-character random generator they all have. Not bad for a stopgap if you're caught needing to make one up on the fly though.
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