Passphrases That You Can Memorize — But That Even the NSA Can’t Guess
Passphrases That You Can Memorize — But That Even the NSA Can’t Guess It’s getting easier to secure your digital privacy. iPhones now encrypt a great deal of personal information; hard drives on Mac...
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Interesting paranoid system. But...You don’t so much need them for logging into a website or something else on the Internet. In those situations, you get less benefit from using a high-entropy...
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As a footnote, there is an interesting audio file on there. It appears that long passwords are not the "b all and end all", it is a question of making the "alphabet" (the possible combinations of...
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I tend to use "words" that make no sense to anyone, unless your me or a close friend. At least 3 of my pass-phrases are based on characters I played for AD&D, and even for AD&D the names mean...
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It could be argued that "brute force" cracking software would probably compare the whole extended ASCII list (at least all ASCII characters available from any keyboard) for each character if it was to...
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It should always be x to xx as a possibility. Like you say if they don't know the length, they are already at the disadvantage.
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Password rules make passwords more vulnerable to brute force attacks, not less. Anyone with the brains to download a script off the internet probably has the brains to "scout the enemy," so to speak,...
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We could maybe take some of the wind out of brute-force attackers' sails by sending them to an error page that takes thirty seconds to transmit, rather than just letting them get away with some red...
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Or even simply requiring that one wait for 5 minutes after so many attempts. That is one of the tricks we use here. On top of 'not having a limit' on the pass phrase in terms of characters, if you...
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Yeah, that's a better idea, it would save admin from getting pestered by drunken students who lock themselves out of their account every night. Phishing is not so much a "password crack" but more a...
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But it is the most effective one around the college. Too many students are not used to thinking in terms of 'ID theft", and they don't stop and think "why would IT be sending me this?"
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