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Life & fun · June 14, 2020

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Correct Horse Battery Staple password generator

Correct Horse Battery Staple password generator launched on June 14, 2020 with 44 votes, #862 of 4,317 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 6 years on.

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Correct Horse Battery Staple is a password generator that creates memorable passphrases by combining random words. Launched in 2020, it helps users generate strong passwords that are easier to remember than traditional character-based ones. The tool is designed for anyone needing secure credentials without the cognitive burden of memorizing complex symbol-and-number combinations. It takes its name and approach from the well-known xkcd comic strip concept about passphrase security.

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This is a truly secure password generator that generates xkcd-style easy-to-remember passwords. We tend to associate secure passwords with complicated and hard-to-remember passwords. But it doesn't have to be this way. We make password difficult to guess by increasing entropy — the degree of uncertainty in the password. The higher the entropy, the harder it is to guess the password. One way of increasing entropy is to make passwords more complicated. Another way is to make the password longer, but keeping it simple, as the following xkcd comic shows: The core idea is that while using a single dictionary word as a password is horribly insecure and can be cracked in seconds, each…from correcthorse.pw

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