How to make super-strong, easy to remember passwords
I found this article and its calculator quite the revelation. One thing
that prevents most people from making super-strong passwords is that it would be hard to remember them. So what if they weren't hard to remember? To summarize this article, it just says don't worry about making your password complex, just make it long. Just the length alone would be enough to defeat the world's fastest supercomputers, in both brute force attacks and dictionary attacks. What they're saying is don't make the needle in the haystack harder to find, just make the haystack bigger. Every additional digit you put into the password, makes it exponentially harder to guess, to the point where you could even create an easily memorable password that would take longer than the entire age of the universe to crack! GRC's | Password Haystacks: How Well Hidden is Your Needle? https://www.grc.com/haystack.htm Yousuf Khan |
How to make super-strong, easy to remember passwords
On Mon, 21 May 2012 14:14:11 -0400, Yousuf Khan
wrote: I found this article and its calculator quite the revelation. One thing that prevents most people from making super-strong passwords is that it would be hard to remember them. So what if they weren't hard to remember? To summarize this article, it just says don't worry about making your password complex, just make it long. Just the length alone would be enough to defeat the world's fastest supercomputers, in both brute force attacks and dictionary attacks. What they're saying is don't make the needle in the haystack harder to find, just make the haystack bigger. Every additional digit you put into the password, makes it exponentially harder to guess, to the point where you could even create an easily memorable password that would take longer than the entire age of the universe to crack! GRC's | Password Haystacks: How Well Hidden is Your Needle? https://www.grc.com/haystack.htm Yousuf Khan Some good information, here. The method I have used for a long time is to pick a favorite song book and a well known song from this book. Then use the first letters of the main verse, along with the page number and song number. This is very easy to remember and it think it would be hard for anyone to crack. I keep the song book concealed in another room where an intruder would not likely find it. Gordon |
How to make super-strong, easy to remember passwords
On Mon, 21 May 2012 14:14:11 -0400, Yousuf Khan wrote:
I found this article and its calculator quite the revelation. One thing that prevents most people from making super-strong passwords is that it would be hard to remember them. So what if they weren't hard to remember? To summarize this article, it just says don't worry about making your password complex, just make it long. Just the length alone would be enough to defeat the world's fastest supercomputers, in both brute force attacks and dictionary attacks. What they're saying is don't make the needle in the haystack harder to find, just make the haystack bigger. Every additional digit you put into the password, makes it exponentially harder to guess, to the point where you could even create an easily memorable password that would take longer than the entire age of the universe to crack! GRC's | Password Haystacks: How Well Hidden is Your Needle? https://www.grc.com/haystack.htm Yousuf Khan I have always enjoyed Steve Gibson's web site. Lots of ideas and a fun style. For those not familiar with him, I recommend taking a look starting at his home page: https://www.grc.com I don't necessarily follow all of his ideas :-) Playing with the page Yousuf points to gives some *very* interesting numbers. -- Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch) |
How to make super-strong, easy to remember passwords
On Mon, 21 May 2012 14:45:50 -0400, Gene E. Bloch wrote
(in article ): Playing with the page Yousuf points to gives some *very* interesting numbers. I agree wholeheartedly. In a very short time I learned a lot about making passwords that are easy to remember but nearly impossible to crack. I loves me some learning! -- Joey from New York Among those whom I like or admire, I can find*no common denominator, but among those*whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh. * *-- WH Auden |
How to make super-strong, easy to remember passwords
On 21/05/2012 2:14 PM, Yousuf Khan wrote:
I found this article and its calculator quite the revelation. One thing that prevents most people from making super-strong passwords is that it would be hard to remember them. So what if they weren't hard to remember? To summarize this article, it just says don't worry about making your password complex, just make it long. Just the length alone would be enough to defeat the world's fastest supercomputers, in both brute force attacks and dictionary attacks. What they're saying is don't make the needle in the haystack harder to find, just make the haystack bigger. Every additional digit you put into the password, makes it exponentially harder to guess, to the point where you could even create an easily memorable password that would take longer than the entire age of the universe to crack! GRC's | Password Haystacks: How Well Hidden is Your Needle? https://www.grc.com/haystack.htm Yousuf Khan Some mo xkcd: Password Strength http://xkcd.com/936/ Yousuf Khan |
All times are GMT +1. The time now is 03:09 AM. |
Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.6.4
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
HardwareBanter.com