Hey folks, passwords are hard to choose!
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It boils down to this: I can't remember as many bits as the TLAs can crack by brute force.
I generally choose things like (no, this is not a real one): Rare steak tastes good when it is cooked over a wood fire. better than chicken. better than fish. good with worcestershire sauce. this is for a pgp passphrase, of course. I find it not to be a problem remembering a sentence character for character.
Starting with a bunch of coin tosses I tried ways of coding them: hex, ASCII, and words off word lists.
Horrors! The hex is too long, ....
Sorry, there is no way regular people are going to remember pass words or phrases with more than about 50-bits worth of information in them--and even doing that well is going to be rare.
? josh