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Show HN: Memorable but hard to crack password generator
- cpt1138 13y agojohn --wordlist
- cobrabyte 13y agoShould this not be behind SSL? Looks good though.
- adamneilson 13y agoProbably should yes!
- ricardobeat 13y agoHaving uncommon words doesn't make a password hard to crack, they're in the dictionary just the same.
- adamneilson 13y agoOf course you're correct and I don't claim that these are uncrackable. Just a way to practice a bit of clojure while the missus had her girlfriends over.
- Tepix 13y agoThe headline is "hard to crack" which seems misleading.
- namenotrequired 13y agoHaving long words does make brute-force cracking harder.
- StavrosK 13y agoWhich is why everyone tries the dictionary search before the brute force.
- namenotrequired 13y agoPretty cool! What does the "<huge number> to one" mean exactly?
- danpalmer 13y agoAs mentioned these passwords aren't hard to crack. Anything based on a word list is going to be inherently easy to crack, and with a predictable format like word-separator-word, it is even easier. I realise this is a fun weekend project, and learning new languages is always a good thing, but I think it's a little irresponsible to make any claims that these passwords are secure. Also as mentioned, if people were to actually use this for password generation it should be behind SSL, although I would discourage anyone from using passwords generated by a remote service.
- tzs 13y agoAssuming a generous 1000000 words in the dictionary, and any non-letter ASCII printable separator allowed as a separator, this is equivalent to a 9 character random password with just lower case letters and digits, or a 7 character random password if all printable ASCII is allowed. It's about 46 bits of entropy. That is a bit low by modern minimum acceptable password length standards.