• kromem@lemmy.world
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    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.

    Test your ability to be unpredictable

    • shucks@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      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!