A passphrase is a sequence of words or other text. So why is passphrase better than passwords?
Passphrases are easier to remember than a random of symbols and letters combined together. It would be easier to remember a phrase from your favorite song or your favorite quotation than to remember a short but complicated password.
Passwords are relatively easy to guess or crack by both humans and machine. Online criminals can more easily crack even the most complicated password.
The use of punctuation, upper and lower cases in Passphrases also meets the complexity requirements for passwords.
Major Operating Systems (OS) and applications supports passphrase. All major OS including Windows, Linux and Mac allow pass-phrases of up to 127 characters long. Hence, you can opt for longer passphrases for maximum security.
Passphrases are next to impossible to crack because most of the highly-efficient password cracking tools breaks down at around 10 characters. Hence, even the most advanced cracking tool won’t be able to guess, brute-force or pre-compute these passphrases.