A button to suggest another combo would help in this case (and anyway, we
should not force the user to use the suggested password.)
I tried a couple times, I got this:
YMCKO-jackpotting-mental disorder-hulk
BCMS-Myspace angle-colloquium-charley horse
extendible-milkiness-contemplate-marron
While I don't know all of these words (English is not my first language),
it does look usable.
Sylvain
2016-11-17 19:32 GMT+01:00 Trey Jones <tjones(a)wikimedia.org>rg>:
On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 1:19 PM, Sylvain Boissel <
sylvain.boissel(a)wikimedia.fr> wrote:
>
> If you want to increase the entropy, use a larger word list rather
than a
> "harder" one. The XKCD comic seems
to have used a 2048-word list for
its
44-bit
estimate. Using a list with 8836 words gets the same entropy
(about
> 52.44 bits) as a completely-random 8-character password using any of
the
94
characters I can easily type on my keyboard (e.g.
"'>hZ|=S\*").
If we want to go this way, we have the largest conceivable word list at
hand with the Wiktionary.
A tool inspired by
https://tools.wmflabs.org/
anagrimes/hasard.php?langue=en
could give 4 words from all those we have in English, and we can even get
words in the same language as the registration form (So it would suggest
French words when registering on the French Wikipedia, Swedish words on
the
Swedish Wikisource, etc.
You want to go with relatively frequent words of reasonable length so the
combination is reasonably memorable and easy enough to type, or you are
back to random gibberish strings.
While not likely, choosing four random English words from Wiktionary *could
*give you this combo
aavakaayaabaciscusesæolotropicpneumonoultramicroscopicsilico
volcanoconiosis
Trey Jones
Software Engineer, Discovery
Wikimedia Foundation
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