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by Sophira 3521 days ago
That's true, but the whole point of the strip was that you use words that evoke an easily-memorable scene in your head.

That will probably mean you can confine your list to words that most people know, which reduces the search space significantly. "correct", "horse", 'battery" and "staple" are all very common words.

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The strip used a 2048 word dictionary. 2^44 is still far too many to brute force
Is it really an easily-memorable scene or has the strip just been referenced in every HN and reddit discussion about password security? There is no way I'm remembering some random story for an account I login to once a month. The point is to have a password that is easy to see in a password manager and then type on a different device. Seeing D8hsegfw_#7Ax42 and then trying to type it into a hidden password field is painful esp. on a phone. Seeing Dynamo-Stench3Player and typing it in is very doable.