On 2 June 2016 at 10:14, Myles Braithwaite <me@mylesbraithwaite.com> wrote:
I follow the xkcd guidelines of password strength <https://xkcd.com/936/>.
Yep, "correct horse battery staple" is a very good password, and everyone should use that everywhere ;-) But seriously, I have a GIST for that < https://gist.github.com/cbbrowne/1201859> root@cbbrowne:/tmp# echo $(grep "^[^'A-Z]\{3,7\}$" /usr/share/dict/words|shuf -n4) dressed sliders replace padded root@cbbrowne:/tmp# echo $(grep "^[^'A-Z]\{3,7\}$" /usr/share/dict/words|shuf -n4) khan tailor con junky root@cbbrowne:/tmp# echo $(grep "^[^'A-Z]\{3,7\}$" /usr/share/dict/words|shuf -n4) ritual prince ethics brags root@cbbrowne:/tmp# echo $(grep "^[^'A-Z]\{3,7\}$" /usr/share/dict/words|shuf -n4) guava facet rumbas drape root@cbbrowne:/tmp# It's common for password policies to include (capitalize something, have a digit, have a non-alphanumeric character); it would be easy to augment with a random digit and a random choice of some special chars. I haven't bothered doing any code for that ;-) -- When confronted by a difficult problem, solve it by reducing it to the question, "How would the Lone Ranger handle this?"