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Quote from: Charles-Tim on August 06, 2020, 04:21:48 AM

If the random password generator is offline, there is nothing bad to use it

This is not accurate. It is only completely safe to use an offline password generator if it is open source, you have reviewed the code yourself, and you have compiled it yourself.

A malicious password generator could give you one of a number of pre-generated paawords, which an attacker also has stored on their own device, giving them a very short list to brute force from.

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Quote from: Paperweight on August 06, 2020, 03:04:17 AM

Don't use a password generator website. Thousands of Bitcoins have been stolen this way. Even if you use if offline, it is HIGHLY LIKELY to give you intentionally or unintentionally predictable output.

If the random password generator is offline, there is nothing bad to use it, but I consider it stressful than to randomly input different characters on my keyboard, but that does not mean it is not safe, nothing connected it online, but use the recommended ones. If connected online, then it is not advisable because we do not know what is running underground to steal the password online in the process of creating it.

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Don't use a password generator website. Thousands of Bitcoins have been stolen this way. Even if you use if offline, it is HIGHLY LIKELY to give you intentionally or unintentionally predictable output.

Don't use a super-strong random password without a physically secured, but weakish-password, backup wallet. Thousands of Bitcoins have been lost this way. You are HIGHLY LIKELY to forget any password that's strong enough to not be brute-forced.

DO focus on the basics of "security" = "something you have" + "something you know". Assume that, tonight, Russian hackers will whack you on the head, give you password amnesia, steal your airgapped computer, start grinding it with a supercomputer, and burn your house down with everything in it to hide the evidence. Grin

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Quote from: Myleschetty on August 05, 2020, 04:36:48 PM

My question is, should i trust the password generate from this site?

no because you can not see the source code of this website so you don't know what it is doing in the background. i would only trust open source software for security sensitive matters and only run them on an airgap computer (not just offline).

Quote from: Myleschetty on August 05, 2020, 04:36:48 PM

Is it save from brute force?

it depends on what length of password you choose and what you use it for. sometimes passwords aren't used as they are given, it could be fed into a KDF and a new password is derived with a salt and then used which would increase the difficulty of brute force by a lot. eg. BIP-38.

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I'd recommend this: https://youtu.be/Pe_3cFuSw1E

Or I'd go to somewhere like
https://iancoleman.io/bip39/ or look at the bip39 wordlist and make a 6-9 word seed.

A 6 word seed is of complexity O(73,786,976,294,838,206,464) to be cracked afaik.

https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0039/english.txt - wordlist is here.

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I was doing some research about how to use strong password which can be easily remember and I find a site which was said to randomly generate strong password.
My question is, should i trust the password generate from this site?
Is it save from brute force?

Note : I'm going to use with an offline computer

I dont know if i posted this thread in the right section if not please let me know.

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