Password v. Passphrase  Today’s xkcd highlights what might be
one of the biggest security mistakes of our digital age: using
passwords over passphrases. The comic does a great job of
illustrating it. I’ve mentioned before that I use 1Password to
store over 400 unique, random passwords. But how do I unlock
1Password? A passphrase that is long. Very long.  Sadly being an
active 1Password user I can highlight that many websites fail if
you use passwords that are greater than 20 characters, much less
a 40 or 50 character passphrase.  4 thoughts on “Password v.
Passphrase    1. That’s not today’s that’s a few years old.
“correct horse battery staple” has become the default password
for bitcoin brainwallets since then.    2. Why do we limit
people’s password length? We limit our members to a password of
8 to 24 characters of mixed case and at least 1 non-alpha. No
one has complained about these limitations as of yet. Not even
sure why I put that upper limit on our passwords. They are
encrypted and salted for storag