The Readable Passphrase Generator generates passphrases which are (mostly) grammatically correct but nonsensical. These are easy to remember (for humans) but difficult to guess (for humans and computers).

Note: Readable Passphrase Manager is moving to BitBucket. Please click the link at the top of the page for the latest updates.

Developed in C# with a KeePass plugin, console app and public API.

See MakeMeAPassword to generate readable passphrases online (without KeePass).

The KeePass plugin and console app runs under Windows and Linux.

If you like the Readable Passphrase Generator you can donate to support development, or just say thanks.

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Why use it?

Because you can make passphrases which are as strong as traditional "strong" passwords (8 letters long, upper, lower, numbers, etc) which you can memorise in 5 minutes instead of 5 days. (And its fun to read the phrases it generates!)

Use this passphrase to protect:
Some examples passphrases:
Download KeePass plugin (requires KeePass Password Safe) or Window / Linux Console Application.
KeePass Plugin Step By Step Guide.

Why Bother At All?

(Warning: geek stuff follows)

XKCD Password Strength Comic

Because XKCD wrote a cool comic about password strength! And when Jeff Atwood and Ars Technica kick up a stink, well you listen.

More seriously, we're told the best password is at least 8 characters 12 characters long, contains upper and lower case letters, numbers and punctuation symbols. Unfortunately, this makes the "best" password something which looks like gibberish and is, frankly, quite hard for ordinary people to remember.

Perhaps something like: 3h4o.%\vJACj

I used to generate 12-16 character passwords like this and memorise them. It would commonly take up to two weeks of typing them in multiple times per day. All told, I've memorised perhaps 10 of these in my life. They get used for my KeePass database, Windows logons (at work and home) and Truecrypt volume, but nothing else because I can't afford to memorise any more (lest I memorise a password and my address falls out of my brain!).

That is all too hard!

So we resort to taking a some word from the dictionary, capitalise a few letters, turn an o into a 0 and stick some punctuation at the end: like our friend Tr0ubador&3 . Only problem is, while that is easy to remember (well, easier according to XKCD), its also trivially easy for a computer to guess.

I memorised the statesman will burgle amidst lucid sunlamps after typing it twice. And, even if some evil hacker knows my dictionary (which it will, because its included with this project), that passphrase is still equivalent to an 11 letter password with upper, lower, numbers and symbols (using the 13k word dictionary from version 0.13).

Much, much easier, I think. (So does my wife!)