Rec: XKCD on Passwords

[pentapus]

Guys, if you are somehow not reading XKCD, you should be. The author/artist has a fantastic knack of explaining little known or counter-intuitive concepts in different fields and then making them funny. So, you, like, learn stuff and generally feel really great about being a geek.

Anyway, this latest was even more educational than usual -- I had no idea! My friend who is in comp sci confirmed that the comic is true facts. Even more hilariously, when I tried to put it into practice, the site for which I was altering the password forbade me to use the format suggested in the comic because the algorithms most sites use to check password strength are apparently not that smart.

In other words, I learned, tried, and failed. Good day.

XKCD on what actually makes a good password.

Comments

[anatsuno]

I suspect that if you replace space with any other special character like a dot or a dash, you could make a pwd that the site would accept.. I hope so, at least. Some do force you to use numbers and special characters as well as letter, which is unfortunate. This is when movie titles become useful…

[pentapus]

Yes, I think you're right. There is likely to be a work around.