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What I want to do:
Use the “save password” feature in FireFox (on Windows 10) without using FireFox’s master password feature.
What I’m afraid of:
Someone stealing my laptop or getting access to my hard drive in a different … Continue reading Is encrypting the FireFox folder with EFS protecting saved passwords in case of someone accessing the hard drive?
Passphrases are (if created correctly) a pretty secure option for a password. They are easy to remember and have a high entropy. They have one big disadvantage: It’s really easy to have a typo because they are so long.
Another option is to take a slightly longer passphrase but only use the first letter of every word. Therefore you get a shorter password (which is slightly harder to remember because you need a slightly longer passphrase).
Example:
“This is a random sentence, I came up with in 5 minutes or so.”
=> “Tiars,Icuwi5mos.”
Can this be considered to be similar secure to a (slightly shorter) passphrase?
To give some perspective: Let’s say we compare a 15-1-characters password with a 7-words/35-characters passphrase.