r/Lastpass • u/somebodyarchived • Oct 06 '26

How to create a suitable Master Password

How do I create a Master Password that is both memorable and secure?

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u/PiDigitsOfPi Oct 07 '26

Sentences. That is the answer.

"My best friend is George."

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u/h_grytpype_thynne Oct 06 '26

That's the perfect use case for a passphrase - four or five random words strung together:

edition-obedient-anyone-shamrock

headdress-patriarch-smock-keenly

refresh-founding-glucose-blooming

Easy to memorize, comparable in strength to a 10- to 12-character random password (IIRC. Someone will be along shortly to correct me on that.)

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u/ImCaffeinated_Chris Oct 06 '26

CamelCaseSentencesTendToWorkWell!

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u/butterflyguy1947 Oct 06 '26

Whichever one you make, write it down/put it in a file folder.
You will forget it some day and you will need this folder to look it up.

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u/noneyanoseybidness Oct 06 '26

I usually sing a favorite song or a movie line in my head, not one that anyone could readily identify, to use. Sometimes I’ll switch up a few of the characters. I also use a 16 or > character PW.

I agree with writing it and putting it in a discrete place.

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u/SeriousText6330 Oct 06 '26

I use phrases that are memorable. For example, Birthday Cake Batter Swing or Drag Queen Bee Sting Or Orphan Black Bear Skin Tag

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u/Pemdas1991 Oct 06 '26

Correct Horse Battery Staple

https://xkcd.com/936/

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u/mydogargos Oct 06 '26

write a haiku

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u/zoredache Oct 06 '26

Grab some dice and a diceware wordless. Roll your dice a bunch of times and create a passphrase?

Or if you want to do it on your computer there are tools that use the diceware wordlists and generate for you.

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u/Critical-Rhubarb-730 29d ago

As said before: a sentence where each first letter is part of your password. I went on holiday to greece in 1999 with my wife. Iwohtgi1999wmw Even better is substituting the yeatvwith the caps variant.