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Presumably the answer to that is to use a long but plausible random string that sounds like a posh English name like "Saint-John Winsor-Rothschild"

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Now I want someone to make a password generator that's just fancy hyphenated names. I can't imagine it would be too hard to make.

Just beware the Falsehoods Programmers Believe about Names: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-...

This isn't particularly relevant to generating a limited subset of valid names.

Yeah, I misremembered the moral of this list. Ah well, my karmic price has been paid.

That's kinda the opposite side of this issue. No need to worry about it because the generator knows all the names, that listicle is about user-generated input.

hsxkpasswd[0] can do it with a little configuration[1].

[0]: https://github.com/bbusschots/hsxkpasswd

[1]: https://www.bartbusschots.ie/s/2015/09/06/using-the-hsxkpass...

That sounds like the right solution to me - it's the "correct horse battery staple" of this problem. I'm going to start using this. 4 names all put together - pronounceable over the phone, visibly viable, and uniquely generated for each instance.

Perhaps something like this?

Q: "What is your mothers maiden name?"

A: "Do not provide access under any circumstances unless this exact key is provided: WEWQEWQ321312"

But that doesn't give me an opportunity to say "Mrs. Sebastian Winifred Campershamp".

There are some quirky name generators elsewhere on the internet. Perhaps you could mash some of the firstname lastname combinations together?

That's my thought. Now we need to get a KeePass extension that does that. It'd be even better if it generated where you went to high school and your first pet's name as well. Though that too could be Mrs. Sebastian Winifred Campershamp.

> Mrs. Sebastian Winifred Campershamp

Definitely more plausible as a pets' name than a maiden name.

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This is a very Corgi name.

muffled voice with strong accent, from call center, over long distance VOIP line which should be perfect clarity but mysteriously isn't, loud background noises, crackles

"Sorry I did not hear, but there seems to be a problem with our computer system I am getting an error message instead of a name, please can you call back later".

Screen shows them: "Do not provide access und" 25 character silent truncation.

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