On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 1:19 PM, Sylvain Boissel < [email protected]> wrote:
> > > > If you want to increase the entropy, use a larger word list rather than a > > "harder" one. The XKCD comic seems to have used a 2048-word list for its > > 44-bit estimate. Using a list with 8836 words gets the same entropy > (about > > 52.44 bits) as a completely-random 8-character password using any of the > 94 > > characters I can easily type on my keyboard (e.g. "'>hZ|=S\*"). > > > > > If we want to go this way, we have the largest conceivable word list at > hand with the Wiktionary. > > A tool inspired by https://tools.wmflabs.org/ > anagrimes/hasard.php?langue=en > could give 4 words from all those we have in English, and we can even get > words in the same language as the registration form (So it would suggest > French words when registering on the French Wikipedia, Swedish words on the > Swedish Wikisource, etc. > You want to go with relatively frequent words of reasonable length so the combination is reasonably memorable and easy enough to type, or you are back to random gibberish strings. While not likely, choosing four random English words from Wiktionary *could *give you this combo aavakaayaabaciscusesæolotropicpneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis Trey Jones Software Engineer, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
