Designing Good Passwords in 2022

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What makes a good password?

  • It should be a chain of characters unknown to and not readily guessable by other humans, and
  • It should have sufficient randomness and length such that it's not one of the trillions of guesses per second modern computers can make, and
  • It should be easily memorable, ONLY to you.

It's hard to balance the first two with the third condition.

Implications:

  • No common words or phrases should be used. Nothing publicly related to you should be used.
  • In the current year, 2022, to sufficiently counter the maximum guessing potential (brute force capability)