Comment by TedDoesntTalk

4 years ago

If you want to avoid wordlist vulnerabilities, try this:

Choose a lyric from a favorite song. Concatenate the first letter of each word in the lyric. Example:

“Rock the Casbah Sharif don't like it”

Becomes:

rtcsdli

Add capitalization or numbers/special characters according to your own pref. For example, maybe your decide to alternate lower and upper case and always end with a bang:

rTcSdLi!

Although you have to use the same capitalization rules for all passwords if you have any hope of remembering them.

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bryanlarsen  4 years ago

That is security by obscurity. If somebody knows your method, they can scrape the lyrics for all popular songs, narrow your password down to a few million possible passwords and just try them all.

  • TedDoesntTalk  4 years ago

    > to a few million possible passwords

    The combinations are easily in the trillions, likely much much more. Read the algorithm.

    An algorithm for password generation is not security by obscurity.

    • bryanlarsen  4 years ago

      10s of thousands of popular songs, dozens of lines per song.

      > Although you have to use the same capitalization rules for all passwords if you have any hope of remembering them.

      So no additional combinations from that. Your algorithm is simple and common enough that it's possible that an attacker can figure it out from a single leaked password. With one leaked password they've compromised all of your passwords to anything they have the capability of trying a few million passwords on.

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