Timeline for deterministic password generator idea
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| Feb 9, 2022 at 0:09 | comment | added | kebabdubaj | I thought that DRNG would let me generate arbitrary length passwords | |
| Feb 8, 2022 at 23:01 | comment | added | mentallurg | If you don't care about password resetting, then your approach is almost fine. I don't see any reason to have step 2, DRNG. The hash has already high entropy. Why do you need a DRNG? It will not make the result worse, but it adds complexity without giving any benefits. | |
| Feb 8, 2022 at 18:49 | comment | added | mentallurg | @kelalaka: Yes, using password manager is the most reasonable approach. But the OP as well as the linked question hopes that it might be possible to have a nice function that gives you passwords for all your web sites, so that you need to remember a single" password only. In the linked answer I explain why it is impossible on the long run. And yes, if one wants to remember a *single password only, one should use password manager. | |
| Feb 8, 2022 at 6:20 | comment | added | kelalaka | Use a password manager? | |
| Feb 8, 2022 at 2:06 | comment | added | mentallurg | This is actually a duplicate of this question. See there the problems you may face. Briefly: What if you need to change a password for one of 100 web sites? A single generator will not work. | |
| Feb 8, 2022 at 1:04 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Feb 8, 2022 at 1:03 | answer | added | Paul Uszak | timeline score: -2 | |
| Feb 8, 2022 at 0:42 | comment | added | DannyNiu | SSL/TLS does pretty much what you describe - deriving working keys from master key obtained from handshake; except they work with binary keys instead of textual passwords. This question is otherwise (as I see it) a request for scheme analysis, thus off-topic. | |
| Feb 8, 2022 at 0:26 | history | edited | kebabdubaj | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| S Feb 7, 2022 at 23:51 | review | First questions | |||
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| S Feb 7, 2022 at 23:51 | history | asked | kebabdubaj | CC BY-SA 4.0 |