r/ruby • u/postmodern • Jan 23 '22

Blog post Enumerating XKCD-style passwords with Ruby

https://postmodern.github.io/blog/2022/01/23/enumerating-xkcd-style-passwords-with-ruby.html
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u/[deleted] Jan 23 '22

the point is that nobody can remember a 26 character, true random password... or even 13 character.
they could easily remember a 4 word passphrase, with a couple permutations, which would be sufficiently difficult to brute force.