Pgen

correct horse battery staple :) Speaking of which, if you want to generate long memorable passphrases, I have an open source cli tool I wrote for that, which I myself use. https://github.com/ctsrc/Pgen Give it a spin

This xkcd comic has been instrumental to me. I wrote a command-line utility a couple of years ago that I use myself regularly to generate secure and memorable passwords https://github.com/ctsrc/Pgen With this tool you can also see how many bits of entropy the passphrase generation settings you are using will result in. For example, generating a 5 word passphrase using the long wordlist pgen -l -n 5 will yield a passphrase like: joyous embolism outsider evasion mashed And when we ask the tool for the entropy with these settings pgen -l -n 5 -e it will tell us: Current settings will create passphrases with 64.62 bits of entropy. And hey, if you have reason to not trust the randomness capabilities of the program or your computer guess what :) My program supports the use of physical dice to generate your password. Have a l

Around 2011 I set up full disk encryption for the first time. The systems I did this on were some second hand computers that I had bought and installed FreeBSD on. The systems were very stable. Too stable! They were running for several weeks until one day when there was a power outage. When power came back I booted the machines up again and I promptly realised that I was not entirely sure about what the convoluted password I had chosen for full disk encryption was exactly. I lost quite a bit of data that day. It taught me to stop with silly 5|_|1357:7|_|7:0|\|5 and to use long passphrases instead. This ensures high entropy without the possibility of forgetting symbols chosen, because there are no symbols to remember. It also taught me to frequently reboot my computers, so that I remember the passphrases to decrypt the disks. I have a tool

Interesting points and I agree. Makes me wonder if I should’ve picked a different name for my passphrase generator. I named it “Pgen” and I use it several times per month. https://github.com/ctsrc/Pgen Perhaps “passblazer” or something would have been a better name :thinking: Unfortunately, it’s not really possible to rename it at this point :/ Oh well, maybe some other time I can come up with a creative name for a project instead of an overly descriptive name :)

My greatest accomplishments on GitHub are my projects that I actively use myself, and which other people are using as well. The prime example of this is my Pgen project. https://github.com/ctsrc/Pgen Pgen is a passphrase generator that uses the EFF wordlists for random passphrases. A typical passphrase generated with Pgen looks like: oxford antelope veteran thorn dastardly gem tripod upfront avocado femur moisture sacrifice Pgen is written in Rust. Browse my GitHub profile to see some other projects as well, including my “repotools” project which is very small but super useful and I invoke the repotools commands many times every day. I also have my zshrc on GitHub, the main selling-point of which is the way I have set up my PS1 prompt. It uses different emojis for different machines and adds some extra white space. The emojis are useful b

> guess all your passwords? Don’t use your mind to create passwords. Use a password generator or passphrase generator. For example, I made a passphrase generator that uses EFF wordlists. I’ve been using this generator myself for quite a while. It runs locally on your machine. https://github.com/ctsrc/Pgen