On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 6:57 AM, Stan Hoeppner <s...@hardwarefreak.com> wrote: > On 7/31/2012 10:51 AM, Mike McClain wrote: > >> If a password is any place but in your head I question its >> security > > Agreed. > >> Take a name and a number out of your childhood that you'll >> remember forever like your first pet and the first phone number >> you memorized, scrambled together. For instance: Spottie and 765-4321, >> becomes S7p6o5t4t3i2e1. Now throw in a little punctuation: >> ..S7p6o5t4t3i2e1!! and you have a password that's personal, easy to >> remember and quite difficult to crack. Don't take my word for it, >> take your password to GRC.com or another password checker on the web >> and see for yourself. > > Disagreed. Too complicated. E.g. > > *******dash******* > > GRC says: 2.43 billion centuries to crack @ 100 trillion guesses/sec. > Length is the key to strong passwords, not complication. The Sun will > turn into a Red Giant and destroy the solar system in ~4 billion years, > so this pwd will survive the end of the world, and possibly the end of > the universe. And yet it's so simple to create and remember. The computation speed is also evolving. it's hard to imagine the speed after 100~200 years. So I guess that password may extinguish before the end of universe. > > Always practice the K.I.S.S. principle. > > -- > Stan > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/501862d3.3080...@hardwarefreak.com >
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