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Nemeski @lemm.ee

6mo ago

How long should a password be?

How long should a password be? | Bitwarden

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- How did you steal my password??
  
  Witchcraft! Get them!
- And then there are those services that let you enter arbitrarily long passwords in the registration form but only save something like 16 characters.
  
  I hate this situation. What horrible design choices in their code!
People gotta stop doing QkFEcEEkJFcwUkQ=
aQuickBrownFoxJumpedOverALazyDog$nuggle9 is far easier to remember and secure.
- The article is from Bitwarden, which is a password manager - using them you don't need to remember individual passwords (or type them, normally).
  Bitwarden does have an option to use passphrases, I just tried it and it gave me washtub-moocher-dominoes.
  
  I use auto generated passphrases. It's mostly for the occasions where I need to give the password to someone, without logging into my bitwarden account, on the device. It's a lot easier, for comparable levels of security.
- Not really, you have a better chance if you use a completely random set of words. I remember hearing of someone getting their bitcoin stolen from their wallet despite their password being from an obscure Afrikaans poem.
  Precisely why I salted it.
- I'm more of a SphinxOfBlackQuartz,JudgeMyVow:3 kinda guy
- I switched to using word phrases after having to type in these Qjdu37hYdu4sjdh&) |] >[vry monstrosities or communicate them to someone else one too many times.
Interesting to see the linked list of the top 100,000 passwords from the Have I Been Pwned data set

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