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  • bluGill@fedia.io
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    5 hours ago

    It is called salt and useful so long as the main part of the password is generally secure without. I have a couple common things I add to any password I have to create (generally meaning my password manager’s automatic generation is rejected), but this is only useful because I figure humans won’t guess the rest (nor will they feed that into a computer to guess the rest which probably isn’t long enough to be secure alone), and the whole then becomes long enough that a computer can’t brute force it. Note that I don’t always use exactly the same sale factors and I don’t put them in the same place - if you know what I try you can brute force my hand generated passwords with a computer but the job is much harder in hopes that you give up.

    But if at all possible I will prefer to use a generate password from my password manager which is even more secure. Humans are very bad are creating passwords - even humans who know all the things to get wrong tend to be bad at it.