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If you'd like to use a mnemonic (a nice long sentence) but need some extra gibberish to prevent it being easily guessed, you can try this :

http://eksith.com/experiments/passwordencoder/

Basically takes the first letter of every word in your sentence and adds its position in the alphabet (plus rotate if you like).

If the sentence you choose is sufficiently unique, the password will also be harder to crack.




Since the last half of the password is partially determined by the first half, this doesn't add much additional entropy (an attacker only has to guess your phrase, and which options you've selected).

In practice this may help in a security through obscurity way, but now your method is public.


It's been public since 2008 :)

This may work better for me since I've used phrases from out-of-print books and some are latinized phrases in Sinhalese. I prefer to use random passwords that I can add to a master file that's PGP encrypted, but in the absence of that, I can tailor this to a site and add character rotation.


    phrases from out-of-print books
Less secure now that there's massive book scanning going on.




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