#passphrases — Public Fediverse posts

Exactly what I came here to say @joernsmock. Long strings of random characters are no harder for computers to guess than equally long strings made up of dictionary words. Epecially obscure or non-English words.

Claiming they are is a sales pitch for password managers vendors, not a security fact. Current passphrase advice reflects that XKCD comic, and suggests passphrases be long, memorable, and changed as infrequently as possible.

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I just published “Generating Passphrases Like correct horse battery staple” at
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I just published “Generating Passphrases Like correct horse battery staple” at
https://www.ii.com/passphrase-generators/ - please post suggestions for passphrase generators as a reply to this toot and I'll include them in my article!
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I just published “Generating Passphrases Like correct horse battery staple” at
https://www.ii.com/passphrase-generators/ - please post suggestions for passphrase generators as a reply to this toot and I'll include them in my article!
#InfiniteInk #Privacy #Security #Tech #Passwords #Passphrases #CorrectHorseBatteryStaple
#Words #Writing #Byℵ #ByNM

I just published “Generating Passphrases Like correct horse battery staple” at
https://www.ii.com/passphrase-generators/ - please post suggestions for passphrase generators as a reply to this toot and I'll include them in my article!
#InfiniteInk #Privacy #Security #Tech #Passwords #Passphrases #CorrectHorseBatteryStaple
#Words #Writing #Byℵ #ByNM

I just published “Generating Passphrases Like correct horse battery staple” at
https://www.ii.com/passphrase-generators/ - please post suggestions for passphrase generators as a reply to this toot and I'll include them in my article!
#InfiniteInk #Privacy #Security #Tech #Passwords #Passphrases #CorrectHorseBatteryStaple
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8,192 French #Diceware word list for use with computers.

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https://theworld.com/~reinhold/wordlist_fr_8192.txt

No, NCSC¹, passphrases of only three (or even four) random words are not sufficient - unless the user knows that the password hashing method is a "slow" one (bad for the attacker). Which is rarely guaranteed.

1025 combinations -- six words from a pool of 20K words, or five words from a pool of 100K words -- should be considered the minimum.

¹https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/collection/top-tips-for-staying-secure-online/three-random-words

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Vor kurzem wurde das 2024 update zum hive systems password table veröffentlicht und wird gerade wieder viel geteilt.

Leider behandelt hive systems das Theme passphrases absolut inadequat, deswegen haben wir das zum Anlass genommen unsere passphrase Tabelle zu aktualisieren.

Details im Kommentar. ⬇️

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#Passwords are a popular topic today - which is good! Far too many people make up easy/simple passwords, reuse them, and complain that it's too hard to figure out #strong passwords AND remember them. I get it! But just adding more symbols or numbers just makes it harder for you to remember, but not a machine to guess. Computers can quickly go through the iterations of 'i', '1', '!', '|' that you used to change up the letter 'i' you have in your password. So why not make it easier on yourself and harder for the machine? Great question! Use #diceware! I've been using it myself for decades now, and enforce its use for #Sysadmins at my company. Use it to create super secure, random #passphrases of 4-6 words that are easy for you, and extremely difficult for a machine. Aside from the manual way of doing it (like I do) a #netizen made a site where it does the dice rolling for you and spits out words from the list that is likely better than whatever you do lol. Give it a try, be #CyberSecure https://diceware.rempe.us/#eff