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Bizz. Sysadmin. Picture Album. Why sequences of words picked at random make better, memorable passwords. I’ve always wanted to write a technical followup to an earlier post, Toward Better Master Passwords, but this time going into some of the math behind it.

Why sequences of words picked at random make better, memorable passwords

Today’s xkcd comic does that for me: Indeed, what took me nearly 2000 words to say in non-technical terms, Randall Monroe was able to sum up in a comic. This just shows the power of math, but that’s another issue. So for those of you who want to understand the comic and see how it relates to my earlier post, read on. But first read or re-read my earlier post on strong master passwords. If, like most sane people, you don’t want to dive into a technical discussion, then stop here and just read the original, non-technical, post that says the same thing as the comic.

The only thing I’ll restate There is one concept (well, actually two concepts) from the Toward Better Master Passwords post that needs to be restated. This embodies two things that we need to take into account when looking at the strength of some components of security. Entropy.

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