I wonder how much more challenging a new password would be, if at the end of your password, you spelt out a number and then your favorite swear word.
2026-04-29 16:39 UTC
Replies (11)
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@JayleneSlide@lemmy.world 2026-04-29 16:42
https://passwordentropy.com/ For your example string: 
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@one_old_coder@piefed.social 2026-04-29 16:46
It's bad. Use a password manager and its generator.
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@Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 2026-04-29 16:59
Hunter2fuck
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@Kolanaki@pawb.social 2026-04-29 16:57
"244466666" Can be explained as "One 2, three 4, five 6."
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@bluGill@fedia.io 2026-04-29 21:11
It is called salt and useful so long as the main part of the password is generally secure without. I have a couple common things I add to any password I have to create (generally meaning my password manager's automatic generation is rejected), but this is only useful because I figure humans won't guess the rest (nor will they feed that into a computer to guess the rest which probably isn't long enough to be secure alone), and the whole then becomes long enough that a computer can't brute force it. Note that I don't always use exactly the same sale factors and I don't put them in the same place - if you know what I try you can brute force my hand generated passwords with a computer but the job is much harder in hopes that you give up. But if at all possible I will prefer to use a generate password from my password manager which is even more secure. Humans are very bad are creating passwords - even humans who know all the things to get wrong tend to be bad at it.
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@toynbee@piefed.social 2026-04-29 20:28
An erstwhile co-worker used to create passwords by stringing together the names of porn actresses and, I think, adding two random numbers at the end. Before I started working with them, apparently they almost told the owner of the company this, but were talked down by some other compatriots.
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@Dearth@lemmy.world 2026-04-30 15:44
My password is always the complete url of the last porn video i watched
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@Redfox8@mander.xyz 2026-04-29 17:40
I once got annoyed that my apparently OK password wasn't being accepted so went with fuckaduck plus some numbers!
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@nocturne@slrpnk.net 2026-04-29 17:41
12345sixperkele
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@hakunawazo@lemmy.world 2026-04-30 15:33
Nice try, fourtysevenZipfelklatscher.
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@thelittleblackbird@lemmy.world 2026-04-29 17:07
The point is... It does not really matter, as long as your password is not trivial the security relies more in the algorithm than in the chosen password. With bcrypt + round parameters, password stretching or any other key derivation technique, even weak passwords cant be cracked in a realistic time frame