Top Ten Passwords
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See Here[^] I have actually banned PASSWORD from being a password. I assign all members of staff with their passwords, an example would be "Dav456id" or "Col573ette" these are safer than "Gandalf" (Which actually IS a Password on my machine for a specific purpose! Guilty As Charged Your Honour).
------------------------------------ No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Clare Boothe Luce
I was helping man the phones when a major push went out recently. I share the cubicle with another intern. She said that night she had a dream where I kept telling her that her new password was Password and that she had to change it when she logged in for safety reasons. Every now and then she'll look at me, giggle and start reciting how to change the password. She's never had to touch the program but can change her password in it in her sleep now...
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Counfound them, ask for the first 25 Happy Primes.
------------------------------------ No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Clare Boothe Luce
"Enter any 11-digit prime number to continue."
All those who believe in psycho kinesis, raise my hand.
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See Here[^] I have actually banned PASSWORD from being a password. I assign all members of staff with their passwords, an example would be "Dav456id" or "Col573ette" these are safer than "Gandalf" (Which actually IS a Password on my machine for a specific purpose! Guilty As Charged Your Honour).
------------------------------------ No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Clare Boothe Luce
My passwords are more likely to include profanities, as I discover yet another different password that I need with yet another different set of restrictions on what you can use...
Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p MVP for 2010 - who'd'a thunk it!
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Counfound them, ask for the first 25 Happy Primes.
------------------------------------ No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Clare Boothe Luce
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Probably stronger than 99.9% of passwords out there given that sample data from the telegraph :) But like I said also, it's easy for me to remember. Out of interest, how strong does it get assuming I repeat the pattern again? So 14 chars, but there would never be repitition of a char or digit.
He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
You'd double the number of bits, and each bit doubles the size of the search space. The problem you'd run into is a number of sites won't let you use a password that long (OTOH one of my banks insists on a 14 char password).
3x12=36 2x12=24 1x12=12 0x12=18
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You'd double the number of bits, and each bit doubles the size of the search space. The problem you'd run into is a number of sites won't let you use a password that long (OTOH one of my banks insists on a 14 char password).
3x12=36 2x12=24 1x12=12 0x12=18
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Is this more secure? ;P
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Ashley, lost my phone last year and your mobile number with it. Did you know Maunder is back in the country? mmartin [at] exemail [dot] com [dot] au or 0 4 0 3 1 3 5 7 0 9.
Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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and ask a classical music question: Who had the most number ones, Elvis or the Beatles? That's pre-downloads. *sees if anyone gets it*
I get it too! :)
------------------------------------ No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Clare Boothe Luce
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and ask a classical music question: Who had the most number ones, Elvis or the Beatles? That's pre-downloads. *sees if anyone gets it*
I think you meant " a classic music question". I don't think either Elvis or the Beatles were exactly famous for their classical music[^]
Graham Librarians rule, Ook!
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I think you meant " a classic music question". I don't think either Elvis or the Beatles were exactly famous for their classical music[^]
Graham Librarians rule, Ook!
Doctor Who Episode entitled "42" There are a series of questions that have to be answered to get through the airlocks after the ship is in Lockdown. Trouble is the crew were drunk when they thought up the questions.
------------------------------------ No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Clare Boothe Luce
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I'm not sure if mine has a limit, but it insists on numbers only...
He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
If the password hash stored is 256-bit (16 byte) (like MD5) each password except one with number of characters between 1-15 has a tween hash into 16 character password. That means 16-char password may have the security of 6 chars (even the same hash as 123456 :laugh: ). If you increase the num of characters you get even more collusions. BTW password I use for codeproject is 4% strong according to this[^]. :^)
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Counfound them, ask for the first 25 Happy Primes.
------------------------------------ No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Clare Boothe Luce
1:)2:)3:)5:)... Works for me!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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See Here[^] I have actually banned PASSWORD from being a password. I assign all members of staff with their passwords, an example would be "Dav456id" or "Col573ette" these are safer than "Gandalf" (Which actually IS a Password on my machine for a specific purpose! Guilty As Charged Your Honour).
------------------------------------ No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Clare Boothe Luce
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Dalek Dave wrote:
"Dav456id" or "Col573ette"
Note: No special characters in those passwords. Hackers, begin your work... :)
Now...bring me that horizon. And really bad eggs...Drink up me hearties, YO HO!
I usually run with a combination of size and character selections. Taking the "Gandalf" as an example mine would be: G@nd@lfTh3Wh1t3 other exampleas: >> C0rl3773Surn@m3 >> D@v1d$urn@m3 >> MyPuppy1$Qu173 stuff like that :) My standard types consist of 12+ length, 2 caps, 6 small 2special and rest numbers, all thrown together adhering to a certain "writing-layout" rule(s) I decided on.
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See Here[^] I have actually banned PASSWORD from being a password. I assign all members of staff with their passwords, an example would be "Dav456id" or "Col573ette" these are safer than "Gandalf" (Which actually IS a Password on my machine for a specific purpose! Guilty As Charged Your Honour).
------------------------------------ No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Clare Boothe Luce
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If the password hash stored is 256-bit (16 byte) (like MD5) each password except one with number of characters between 1-15 has a tween hash into 16 character password. That means 16-char password may have the security of 6 chars (even the same hash as 123456 :laugh: ). If you increase the num of characters you get even more collusions. BTW password I use for codeproject is 4% strong according to this[^]. :^)
According to that site "!@#$%^&*()" is 100% strong.
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If the password hash stored is 256-bit (16 byte) (like MD5) each password except one with number of characters between 1-15 has a tween hash into 16 character password. That means 16-char password may have the security of 6 chars (even the same hash as 123456 :laugh: ). If you increase the num of characters you get even more collusions. BTW password I use for codeproject is 4% strong according to this[^]. :^)
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"Enter any 11-digit prime number to continue."
All those who believe in psycho kinesis, raise my hand.
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OriginalGriff wrote:
All those who believe in psycho kinesis, raise my hand.
Hehe, I believe that if I act like enough of a psycho, you'll raise your hand just to get me to leave you alone. ;P
Given some of my friends, you may have to work at it... :omg: :wtf: :laugh:
All those who believe in psycho kinesis, raise my hand.
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See Here[^] I have actually banned PASSWORD from being a password. I assign all members of staff with their passwords, an example would be "Dav456id" or "Col573ette" these are safer than "Gandalf" (Which actually IS a Password on my machine for a specific purpose! Guilty As Charged Your Honour).
------------------------------------ No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Clare Boothe Luce
Then again, being able to crack the passwords means having access to the stored passwords. A secure system should implement policies against dictionary attacks such as three tries and you are locked and making sure that sql injection doesnt simply serve up your login data. And of course, never actually storing the passwords themselves even encrypted. Most websites I have used simply let you try as many times as you want though so for those I use the most random string I can possibly remember and never put anything on the site that is even remotely sensitive. If it gets hacked, MEH doesn't hurt. And everyone knows real geeks use "ResistanceIsFutile" for their secure passwords. :)
