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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: 0.201s | source
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0xbadcafebee ◴[18 Oct 24 16:48 UTC] No.41881170[source]▶
Why not just do the 4 english words thing? https://xkcd.com/936/
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1. sedatk ◴[18 Oct 24 20:22 UTC] No.41883114[source]▶
Because this is ~25% shorter, and have 71 bits of entropy instead of 44 bits.