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Apple Passwords’ generated strong password format

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430 points tambourine_man | 1 comments | 18 Oct 24 11:12 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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eviks ◴[18 Oct 24 13:11 UTC] No.41879128[source]▶
Why not just use real words with longer password instead? That'd be easier to type than these shorter "word-like" syllables
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bombcar ◴[18 Oct 24 13:13 UTC] No.41879137[source]▶
Even if horse-battery-staple works mathematically people don't trust that it's "really random".

1password supports it as "memorable password".

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david422 ◴[18 Oct 24 13:24 UTC] No.41879233[source]▶
Here's a format I really like:

3CatsHave12Legs!

Easy to memorize, and pretty strong.

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rhaps0dy ◴[18 Oct 24 13:29 UTC] No.41879283[source]▶
How many more passwords of this format can you construct? `have` is fixed, the `!` at the end is a classic, and the 12 number is pre-determined by true cats and the 3. So the only degrees of freedom you have are:

- the entity number (3)

- the kind of entity (Cats)

- the kind of part (Legs)

and that's not a huge number of combinations.

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bayindirh ◴[18 Oct 24 13:35 UTC] No.41879329[source]▶
"My4BikesHave9WheelsBecause1IsATricycle?" is a valid one for example?
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nothercastle ◴[18 Oct 24 13:46 UTC] No.41879439[source]▶
You have to type that all in without error and the archaic app needs to actually support that many characters
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1. bayindirh ◴[18 Oct 24 13:49 UTC] No.41879461{3}[source]▶
I write longer passwords than that periodically. Archaic applications will get shorter variants. No two app will share the same password.

All are no problems for me. With or without a password manager.