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EFF Dice-Generated Passphrases | Electronic Frontier Foundation (www.eff.org)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by possiblylinux127 to c/[email protected]

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This is really good for encrypted content such as a hard drive, password vault or gpg key

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Nobody remembers diceware?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Eff has a better list imo. Diceware has a tonne of short abbreviations like "1st". Eff is words that are mostly 5 to 8 characters long. Much more xkcd like and easier to make a mnemonic out of.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I used to use it but have switched to using the first letter of each word in a phrase with some numbers and special characters thrown in. It's not as much typing and I can still get 128 bits of entropy and I can just as easily memorize it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

If it's from a memorable phrase, then the phrase has a lot of redundancy and it's hard to estimate the actual entropy. Generating a random phrase and writing it on a slip of paper works for me. Keep the paper in your pocket and refer to it when you need to, instead of trying to memorize it. Once you've typed it into the computer a few times, you remember it automatically. At that point you can swallow the paper or use your favorite alternate secure disposal method ;).