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Comment on Ask HN: Would you consider a password like this safe?

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Are you asking if this is a secure method to generate passwords or if this one result is readily crackable?

The method is obviously flawed as everyone born in 1990 shares this password. This one result though was relatively safe in that random password guessers estimate that it would take billions of years to crack.

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I am wondering wether this is a (considerably) secure method of generating passwords in general. The example I made was very simple and not creative. It only tried to illustrate what I am thinking about.

Edit/ Addition: Can you share the tool you used to estimated the time? I knew there is a way to see how random something is, but search results are cluttered with generators and I couldn't find something.

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