Nowadays, most people use password managers (hopefully). However, there are still some passwords that you need to memorize, like master password (for a password manager), phone lock, wifi password, etc.

Security wise, can passphrase reach the strength of a good password without getting so long that it defeats the purpose of even using it?

  • death is close@procial.tchncs.de
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    9 months ago

    @[email protected] Why would the passphrase being long defeat the purpose of using it. That’s half the purpose of using passphrases.
    Make sure to use made up words or proper nouns and put a pin in an unexpected place. That’s an easy way to change it without replacing the whole passphrase

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      9 months ago

      I was thinking it would be easy to brute force if just instead of guessing character by character you do word by word…but I guess just adding one special character randomly would make it a non issue.

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        9 months ago

        There are a lot more words than there are characters, even including special characters, so if it is actually randomly generated from a large dictionary, a passphrase is much harder to guess

      • ∟⊔⊤∦∣≶@lemmy.nz
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        9 months ago

        Brute force is only a thing when either they have the password hash, or the login portal is susceptible to brute force (ie shite). Both cases are rare.