Another possibility is to write down encrypted passwords and don't disclose encryption technique. The rot13 is worthless.
-- Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." Ed Howdershelt 1940. On Wed, 20 Sep 2023, Hoël Bézier wrote: > Am Tue, Sep 19, 2023 at 12:36:13AM -0500 schrieb Dale: > >In the real world tho, how do people reading this make passwords that no > >one could ever guess? I use Bitwarden to handle website passwords and > >it does a good job. I make up my own tho when encrypting drives. I'm > >not sure I can really use Bitwarden for that given it is a command line > >thing, well, in a script in my case. I doubt anyone would ever guess > >any of my passwords but how do people reading this do theirs? Just how > >far do you really go to make it secure? Obviously you shouldn't give up > >much detail but just some general ideas. Maybe even a example or two of > >a fake password, just something that you would come up with and how. > > For storing passwords, I use app-admin/pass. > > For choosing passphrases, I write sentences. I know having space character at > a predictable frequence in the passphrase makes it easier to find out, but > using phrases makes it easier to come up with very long passphrases (which, I > believe, balances the space thing, though I’m no crypto expert), which are > also easy to remember. > > Hoël > >
