Is there a technical reason why blank spaces can’t be used in password since you always have to hit submit afterwards anyway?

Question

Just reading in that long password are better than complex ones. Wouldn’t it be better if our passwords were long memorable quotes like “Now are the times that try men’s souls” instead of something like Be$ty78?

In: Technology

Answer 1

Yes, 100%! This is actually exactly what people recommend. (Technically you should really just use a password manager and generate really long passwords for everything. But the password for the *password manager* should be a passphrase.)

I highly recommend looking into diceware password generation. Basically, get a long list of words, and get some (real-life) dice. Rolling the dice picks one of the words from the list. Rinse and repeat as many times as you like.

Then, I would recommend substituting some of the characters, just to ensure that cracking it won’t be as simple as a dictionary attack.