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PassPhrase Generator

Through 20 years of effort we've successfully trained everyone to use passwords that are hard for humans to remember but easy for computers to guess.

Inspired by the xkcd comic: 1)

Through 20 years of effort we've successfully trained everyone to use passwords that are hard for humans to remember but easy for computers to guess. http://xkcd.com/936/


Passphrase

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  • Add at least one randomly capitalized letter (not the first letter of a word) and a numeral and/or punctuation to make your password significantly stronger (harder for computers to guess).

This password is generated entirely in your browser; the server has no possible way to record which password you choose.

To test relative strength, copy and paste one of the suggested passwords into one of these testing sites to see how long it might take for a computer to brute-force guess your password:


Length is the most important part of a password!



Further discussion on the tradeoff between length and password complexity to make passwords more secure: https://www.hivesystems.io/blog/are-your-passwords-in-the-green



A cryptographically stronger password generator (random “seed” generated for each visit)3) can be found at: http://fourmilab.ch/javascrypt/pass_phrase.html




Disclaimer

We are not responsible for any consequence of choosing a password here. Your password is your choice!

THIS SERVICE IS PROVIDED “AS IS” AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE WEBMASTER BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.



1)
Code borrowed under BSD license from http://www.passphra.se, with longer word list from www.wordfrequency.info.
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The fact that many people use the password generator on this page is in effect an additional random seed and makes it difficult for an attacker to predict the order of passwords that will be generated for any particular user. An attacker would also have to know the exact time you created your password in order to re-create the pseudorandom sequence of passwords created. A random “seed” created for each user would further increase the entropy of the sequence that passwords are selected. The random seed for this service is regenerated regularly, but not for every visit.
pass.txt · Last modified: 2023/06/27 01:14 by Alan Shea