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Easy Secure Passwords

In the spirit of the XKCD cartoon, I’ve written a tool to help me think of really secure, really memorable passwords.

For example, here is a set of 5 such passwords chosen at random from a pool of 3 million million million passwords:

starkly.scoop.drawer.gifted.become
stack.epilogue.surprise.print.ancillary
beast.incentive.cloud.country.magical
practiced.original.sinusitis.low-wage.widowed
snarl.ritual.trouble.power.shoreline

But that’s a lot of typing. If you’re willing to be less secure, here are 5 sample passwords chosen at random from a much smaller set of just 625 million million passwords:

likely.crippling.digital.distrust
clogged.gaiety.earth.bring
ragged.online.house.suppose
wordplay.golden.humbling.adviser
untimely.plenty.all-pro.cancer

Still too much typing? How about these 5 super-easy passwords chosen at random from a set of just 425 million passwords:

brawl@social
surrender;newsman
parallel&thwarted
comedic*effort
flooring>brutal