Re: See what a weak password will get ya?
Incoming from Mathieu Ducharme:
> On July 22, 2004 10:59 pm, s. keeling wrote:
> > Incoming from Scarletdown:
> > > An example of a good password (though since I'm posting it here, it can
> > > no longer be considered good) is:
> > >
> > > P@s$w0rD
> >
> > I disagree. A cracking program is going to attempt to match
> > permutations of dictionary words. This will not add much more time to
> >
> > b1rDW0rm
>
> I'm pretty sure dictionary attack also look for this. (?)
It was just an example. I sprinkle liberally with punctuation. :-)
> Use other characters that will make the word absolutely not dictionary related
>
> x[(P@s$)~(w0rD)]x
However, if you haven't moved to RSA based longer passwords, that's
effectively "x[(P@s$)" (which isn't bad, but you may be typing more than
is recognized). Stock passwords are eight chars. The rest are ignored.
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