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by thomastjeffery 2882 days ago
The problem with that is that they pick awful sets to generate from.

Instead of a string of random letters and numbers, they should be a string of words.

It's frustrating to visit someone's home, and have to enter (on a phone keyboard, no less) some lengthy gibberish that they never bothered to change.

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When I have to generate pw for such use case I use: http://www.dinopass.com/
Only reason I would be concerned about using that specific generator in particular would be the fact that it severely limits your passwords to the "kid-friendly" set.
That’s the only reason? And the fact that it’s exclusively online?
If you have to create pw you want use one time and tell it to someone over the phone or use it for "Guest WiFi" network, I don't see why I got downvoted.

It is not like I am going to use it for my main email account.

I get it but OTOH just search for “XKCD password generator” and there’s like twenty offline options…
Oh yes, XKCD style passwords are even better to spell out over the phone.