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tl;dr: Use xkcdpass
to generate more secure passwords, like
“correcthorsebatterystaple”.
It won’t satisfy your bank’s silly password requirements, but — as XKCD told us — using a random collection of words for your password provides more security than trying to Leet-speak some word with numbers and symbols.
You could pick a handful of words by flipping through the dictionary, but why not let the computer do it for you? That’s where xkcdpass
comes in.
It’s probably available in your package repository.
$ pacman -Ss xkcdpass
It’s just Python, so you can use pip
if you’re on macOS or Windows or some other
platform that doesn’t have xkcdpass
handy.
$ pip install xkcdpass
Regardless of how you install it, run it and grab the output — but let your password manager remember it for you.
$ xkcdpass
tiara embezzle stack doorway scrambled imitate