Password scheme
Password scheme
Posted Jun 5, 2013 15:44 UTC (Wed) by robbe (guest, #16131)In reply to: Password scheme by diederich
Parent article: DeadDrop and Strongbox
> box (which contains 99171 entries) gives you more than 64 bits of
> entropy.
> [...]
> I'm not aware of any system that allows me to remember that many
> bits of entropy so easily.
Assuming we have the same words file (the number of entries match), this contains a lot of hard-to-remember variants. For example every name occurs in there as "Jack" and as "Jack's". It is definitely not the list of simple words used by XKCD 936 (dictonary size 2^11 == 2048).
For the sake of discussion, a script of mine generated this alternatives from the same 64 bits of randomness:
adzes rights Macumba's staleness's
AU's mastoscirrhus seel Bremerton's
Abgangszeugnisse Sollstärke blumigen Synthetik
17244702336126568816
gyskcgtcjfpsbg
cpprKpTOYLaG
uH25bi602OO
dLl%M4Aw.ZI
?bwto5p5Zs
y°USK8Tüöq
g-ßa+j6ög3bv
Decide for yourself if you're better at remembering the spelling of "mastoscirrhus" or "adzes" (or was it "adzes's") or a shorter random jumble of characters.
[an hour later]
I added another wordlist based on Ogden's Basic English containing a bit over 2000 words. Example output:
disgust saucer cool library overall moral