On 1/9/2015 11:19 AM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > On Sex, 09 Jan 2015, Jerry Stuckle wrote: >> SSH passwords are very safe, if they are long enough. For instance, if >> you have a 10 character password, mixed case and numbers (no special >> characters), a brute force attack of 100 attempts per second would take >> almost 266 million years to cover all possibilities. 11 characters >> would take over 16 billion years - longer than the life of the universe. > > If the characters are random, that is. >
That's just good security practice. > The problem is that passwords are often not really random. So even > seemingly secure passwords may be guessed relatively easy. This article > gives a good overwiew about this topic: > http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/05/how-crackers-make-minced-meat-out-of-your-passwords/ > > If you don't follow good security practices, it's your own fault if you get hacked. Jerry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/54b00528.2040...@gmail.com
