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throwaway27448today at 5:25 PM1 replyview on HN

> A modern consumer GPU can crack "four random English words" in a day.

Sure, if you can rely on users using a specific format. The joy of the xkcd technique is you don't need to tell other people what yours is.

But, people just aren't going to remember strings of gibberish. Expecting users to do this is just silly.


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applfanboysbgontoday at 5:30 PM

The "joy of the XKCD technique" is that it prescribes a specific format millions of people will use, and it's so trivial to break that you can throw it into your cracking algorithm at virtually no cost.

If you were willing to use a bespoke, more secure variation of it, you could include a capital letter and a number rather than filing an issue on a repo insisting that you be allowed to use exactly the insecure variation.

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