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Does anyone have a good algorithm for using a password template/seed for different sites? Choosing a template, say 5_h_7_s_9_j, and replacing the _ with characters from the site's name works (and you could increment the characters or whatever), but if anyone gets two of your passwords it's pretty obvious there's a pattern and it's not particularly hard to work out the relationship between the site name and the password.


Still this is better than having the same password for every website where the pattern is infinitely obvious!




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