On Sat, 21 Mar 2020, William Cheswick wrote:
> Ron made an insult generator. You can get ten fresh samples at
>
> https://cheswick.com/insult
Neat! I vaguely remember a similar one posted to Usenet ages ago; ah,
those were the days.
> It has about 42 bits of entropy, generating a nice password that is
> probably safe-for-work, unless you work in a very unusual place. A lot
> of people use cuss words as passwords.
I read somewhere (Schneier?) that "shocking nonsense" makes for good
passphrases; easily remembered, and hard to guess. And yes, I know about
that XKCD cartoon...
"play city carrot is a toy store in tokyo"
was my pass phrase more than a decade ago.... Not quite nonsense, though, because the Japanese like to use English words for how they look or sound rather than what they mean. Much like people here choose tattoos for how they look, not quite understanding they just got "katchup queen gerbil" emblazoned on their lower back...
Warner