[…] Bart Busschots started noodling these two ideas in combination: XKCDs illustration of how common words can make good passwords, and Steve Gibson on the fact that longer by definition is way harder to crack. From these ideas, Bart created a tool to help people create long, strong and yet memorable and typwable passwords. He called his project called XKPASSWD (for a head nod to XKCD) and later Bart published it as an open source project on Github calling it Crypt-HSXKPassd. Bart has a full explanation on all the tech behind this tool at bartbusschots.ie/…