How many websites/services don’t support such lengthy passwords these days?
Comment on Security expert reveals surprising way to make your password stronger: use emojis
kromem@lemmy.world 1 year ago
No. There’s only one piece of advice that should be given to users in 2023 about how to make their passwords stronger:
Use a password manager
Just use 32 character random alphanumeric passwords that are unique for each site (you can do more like 12-16 characters if you’ll ever need to enter manually).
This is it. Stop trying to create clever passwords that you can remember. You aren’t as uniquely creative as you think and there’s been bodies of research into how the various things people do to create passwords that look secure can reduce the generation space so much that they become considerably easier to crack with an intelligent algorithm.
lemmyingly@lemm.ee 1 year ago
kromem@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Few, but those that don’t you can just shorten the length generated.
shucks@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
I got it to a stable 54% by using an
algorithm
typing f or d for consonants and vowels respectively in sentences I thought up, switching languages regularly,
and a stable 56% by just typing randomly and adjusting my patterns based on the colored output, which might have skewed my results. Certainly a very cool tool, I also liked the explanation linked on the page!