On 2017-08-16 11:45, Andreas Mahel wrote:
On 15.08.2017 23:32, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2017-08-15 23:15, David C. Rankin wrote:
On 08/15/2017 01:59 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
pwgen might send the password to somewhere, too ;-P
A GUI is nicer, easier to chose the options without reading the manual.
Yep, granted, but at least with pwgen, you have the source, so you can spend a good 5 minutes to look through 6 very short c-sources to verify that "ET doesn't phone home" :)
So I can use a web generator via Tor. Good luck them finding me :-p
I don't think the problem lies in the password being traceable back to you. It's more the possibility that the password could end up in a dictionary, or hashes of the pw could be entered in some rainbow tables, thus providing an easy way to crack it. That would make a complex and hard to remember password just a bit too insecure...
I seriously doubt it. The people creating the dictionary could as well just run the generator and feed it directly into the dictionary database, hundreds of entries per minute. They would gain nothing from this. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)