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by sparkie 1044 days ago
Create your own haiku, never publish it. What are the odds of someone creating exactly the same haiku?
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Probably much higher than you suspect. Making password haikus is an obvious idea which has been suggested many times before.

I'm sure that even with a great statistical model of password haikus (say an LLM) yours would still be one in a billion which still seems unlikely, but a cracking cluster can try billions per second.

In these cases it's very easy to have security that depends on the odds that a powerful attacker just hasn't gotten around to seriously trying the broad class of predictable generation schemes you've used.