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Fun way to generate a reasonably complex password: pick six+ words out of a favorite song, take the first letter of each word, turn to CaMeLcAsE, pick a letter or two and replace with an ascii equivalent (e.g. s becomes 5, a becomes @, etc.), and wrap it with $'s or ^'s or one of those top-row characters.

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Wouldn't using the six word phrase most likely be a much more secure password than condensing it to a mere 8 characters?


The method's for a password, not passphrase. If more places allowed passphrases, then yeah, of course I'd go for that.




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