Letting users choose their own passwords sucks because so many choose "password"
for their password, or something equally as easy to guess. A great many will choose
a dictionary word or a variation on a dictionary word, such as adding a single digit to
the end, so that's easy for the bad guys to guess.
Typical auto generated passwords suck because "Ad%O$#908sD^!" is very hard to
remember and easy to mistype. We found another approach which doesn't suck, and
we made a free online tool for anyone who wants to use it. We generate passwords which
LOOK like English words, so they are very easy to type and aren't too hard to remember.
They are NOT actually words, though, so they won't be in the cracker's dictionary.
Examples are frucspin and relitemer . The free tool to generate these can be found at:
http://www.bettercgi.com/strongbox/passgen/
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