Paradox of Passwords



Xkcd, the popular "webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language", recently posted a strip about the paradoxical in humans trying to create hard to guess passwords.

Through 20 years of effort, we've successfully trained everyone to use passwords that are hard for humans to remember, but easy for computers to guess.


The comic even resulted in a Simple Strong Password Generator.

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This seems to suggest that a combination of random English words is a good password, but I've always heard that that's a bad idea because it's easy for software to go through combinations of words in the dictionary to guess passwords.
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So true. I already use a variant of the above, it's diceware. You generate random numbers via dice rolls, and you match the result with a list of simple words. Dead simple.
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