A button to suggest another combo would help in this case (and anyway, we should not force the user to use the suggested password.)
I tried a couple times, I got this: YMCKO-jackpotting-mental disorder-hulk BCMS-Myspace angle-colloquium-charley horse extendible-milkiness-contemplate-marron While I don't know all of these words (English is not my first language), it does look usable. Sylvain 2016-11-17 19:32 GMT+01:00 Trey Jones <[email protected]>: > 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 > > aavakaayaabaciscusesæolotropicpneumonoultramicroscopicsilico > volcanoconiosis > > > > > Trey Jones > Software Engineer, Discovery > Wikimedia Foundation > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > -- *Sylvain Boissel* ADMINISTRATEUR SYSTÈME ET RÉSEAUX *WIKIMÉDIA FRANCE* *Tél +33 1 42 36 97 72* *Mobile : +33 7 84 37 91 03* *www.wikimedia.fr <http://www.wikimedia.fr/>* *40 rue de Cléry, **75002 Paris* <http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/691082430#map=19/48.86814/2.34683> *Imaginez un monde où chaque personne sur la planète aurait librement accès à la totalité du savoir humain. C'est notre engagement. Aidez Wikimedia France à en faire une réalité <https://dons.wikimedia.fr>.* _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
