I Ditched Password Generators and Made a Better One in Excel. Heres How
News Source : PCMag.com
News Summary
- A 2024 survey by NordPass found that the average consumer has to juggle 168 passwords.
- What you really need is a strong, unique password for every site, and the only way to do that is with a password manager.
- Just about every password manager comes with its own random password generator, some of which are better than others.
- In theory, a hacker who knows the algorithm and has access to one of your generated passwords could replicate all subsequent generated passwords (though it would be difficult).
- If you're paranoid enough, you might want to create your ownrandom password generator.
A 2024 survey by NordPass found that the average consumer has to juggle 168 passwords. Only a savant could memorize that many different passwords, so people cut corners. Some use easy passwords like [+13744 chars]
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