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If I knew your passwords were all song lyrics, that's already a failure of security.

In a sense. But it's a principle of cryptography that you assume the attacker knows all your schemes / algorithms, and only the random bits are secret.

Your scheme can be a few more random bits, selecting from a finite number of "schemes".

Yes.

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