I use long and complex mathematical/physics/chemistry formula as password. It's easy to remember, good to practice your memory and very hard to crack (since it contains letters, numbers and special chars).
Password Chart
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It constantly surprises me that supergenpass hasn't caught on more with geeks. It's a pretty elegant solution to a problem everyone has.
Looks interesting but my first thought is that if I want to access my gmail on someone else's computer I would need to install the firefox extension first.
I've memorized a few (non-genpass) passwords for sites that I regularly use from other computers -- gmail being one of them. I also use the mobile version which nuclear_eclipse mentioned.
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#43Use undefinedundefinedundefinedundefinedundefinedundefinedundefinedundefinedundefinedundefinedundefined as your password. That happens if Cookies are disabled.
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Because that doesn't give you security if the site is compromised. For example, if my Phase+password combination is RootGod+Facebook.com it wouldn't take very long for someone to realize that RootGod+Gmail.com would also likely work there.
I thought that the Password+Site combo assumed the usage of SHA1 or MD5, though I know that this doesn't work for some sites (with max password limits). Maybe CRC32 in those cases?
CRC32 is bad way to hash anything, if you want secure hash of some obscure length, just truncate output of say SHA-256 (by the way, SHA-224 is exactly this: truncated output of SHA-256).
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#45This seems like too much work, to me. I'll stick with the "easy for you to remember, but difficult for others to guess" rule for making my passwords. I've never used password generators because I want to be able to log in away from home or work.
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#46Hey folks - I'm the creator of passwordchart.com. A friend just alerted me to the submission here - I guess I picked the wrong day to try to get things done and ignore HN yesterday.
I built passwordchart.com four years ago after reading a comment on Slashdot. It got me thinking about building a simple form of a personal one time pad that could be regenerated via memorable phrase. The interactive password part is really just there to show how to use the chart.
Finally, for a data point for others wondering what a post on HN means for traffic, I normally get around 300 to 350 visitors per day. Yesterday there were 5623 visitors and so far today Google Analytics is reporting 1333 visitors.
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#47SuperGenPass is a much better, simpler, and safer alternative, IMO. http://supergenpass.com
If you're worried about browser security, there's a command-line reimplementation in python that a friend and I wrote:
http://github.com/gfxmonk/supergenpass
Less convenient, but much less likely to leak your passwords via the browser...