On 2014.08.26 01:16, Chris Angelico wrote: > A huge THANK YOU to whoever set the rules for PyPI passwords! You're > allowed to go with a monocase password, as long as it's at least 16 > characters in length. Finally, someone who recognizes XKCD 936 > passwords! > > And yes, I generated an XKCD 936 password for the job. My parrot is > good at that... uses a dictionary consisting of every word ever noted > by her, and can optionally trim it to "most common N words" for any > given value of N. While a vast improvement over the kinds of passwords many places would like to impose, xkcd 936 passwords can still be difficult to remember. I prefer phrases with context (and proper punctuation and capitalization if practical). Something with context is generally easy for a human to remember, but difficult for a machine to guess.
"keyboard television barf machine" or "Yay for the download counter!" Which one is easier to remember and harder to guess? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
