Yes No. Ask Question Asked 3 years, 1 month ago. ‘Password strength’, from my favorite webcomic source, XKCD. In this case, the salt would be a short, traditional, hard to remember password that you re-use with every xkcd style password. Help name every color over at colornames.org. A bunch of users will do exactly as the first panel says - they'll take a dictionary word, capitalize the first letter, do some gentle substituting, then add a number and symbol to the end. Viewed 110 times 5 \$\begingroup\$ There are a few "XKCD password" generators out there, but the task seems so straight forward, so I wanted a compact and simple solution. That being said, this doesn’t mean we can’t share a laugh about all the funny passwords that can be found online. So to have the best possible password you want it to be 11 characters long and have a large character set so use a upper case letter, a symbol or 2, and at least one number. Here are my absolute faves, compiled from all over the world wide web, from crazy stories from friends and coworkers and so on: A. Passwords for really forgetful people. To add a login to this list: register a fake account then share it. Active 3 years, 1 month ago.

★ Prüfe, ob dein Passwort sicher ist. Get Logins . Diese Anwendung hilft Dir, die Passwortstärke zu ermitteln und ein gutes, sicheres Passwort zu nutzen. Generate XKCD passwords from single Bash line. If you can store them somewhere, naturally you’d use completely random passwords and make them as long as possible. Access and share logins for forums3.xkcd.com. Looking at the XKCD comic, and at examples of real world passwords, we see that most users have passwords much much weaker than the XKCD example.
It would be hard to remember, but you'd only need to memorize it once. One slight addition to the xkcd password scheme that would add another order of magnitude of security would be to have your own personal "salt" that you add to all your passphrases.

If you have to remember passwords, then the XKCD method is probably best. Feeling creative? forums3.xkcd.com logins Username: biteme Password: biteme Stats: 50% success rate; 2 votes; 10 years old; Did this login work? And you’d not even attempt to remember them because it’s entirely pointless to do so. It simply offers the best entropy / easy to remember ratio.