{"id":796,"date":"2012-08-08T22:33:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-09T06:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/?p=796"},"modified":"2012-08-09T09:40:42","modified_gmt":"2012-08-09T17:40:42","slug":"easy-secure-passwords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/08\/easy-secure-passwords\/","title":{"rendered":"Easy Secure Passwords"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the spirit of the <a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/936\/\">XKCD cartoon<\/a>, I&#8217;ve written a tool to help me think of really secure, really memorable passwords.<\/p>\n<p>For example, here is a set of 5 such passwords chosen at random from a pool of 3 million million million passwords:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<pre>starkly.scoop.drawer.gifted.become\nstack.epilogue.surprise.print.ancillary\nbeast.incentive.cloud.country.magical\npracticed.original.sinusitis.low-wage.widowed\nsnarl.ritual.trouble.power.shoreline<\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>But that&#8217;s a lot of typing. If you&#8217;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:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<pre>likely.crippling.digital.distrust\nclogged.gaiety.earth.bring\nragged.online.house.suppose\nwordplay.golden.humbling.adviser\nuntimely.plenty.all-pro.cancer<\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Still too much typing? How about these 5 super-easy passwords chosen at random from a set of just 425 million passwords:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<pre>brawl@social\nsurrender;newsman\nparallel&thwarted\ncomedic*effort\nflooring>brutal<\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the spirit of the XKCD cartoon, I&#8217;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&#8217;s a lot of typing. If [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[52],"tags":[596,597,595,594,234,335],"class_list":["post-796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-cryptography","tag-keys","tag-passphrase","tag-passwords","tag-security","tag-xkcd"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paRqpr-cQ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}