BREAKING NEWS
GPU hardware has gotten faster since 2015!
We might eventually need to push this up to 12 characters minimum. Also, for the love of {diety}
, please never, ever create a numbers-only password.
All this fancy “make up a long pass phrase” talk is fine, until you have to start entering passwords on a mobile phone, and realize that mobile phones are probably the dominant form of computing for everyone, statistically speaking, moving forward.. the Chia project has a neat way of dealing with this, autocomplete for a set of 24 words:
and here’s a random new one I generated
As you type, it autocompletes from the available words, so you only have to type a few characters from each word..
that’s really clever!