Re: password

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



Tim wrote:
> Manuel Arostegui Ramirez:
>>> Of course I'm not going to tell you guys what I do with my passwords :-) 
> 
> Vivek J. Patankar:
>> So why mention it in the first place?
> 
> Quoting from Yes Minister, or Yes Prime Minister (a BBC TV series):
> - Can you keep a secret?
> - Yes...
> - So can I.
> (End of that conversation)
> 
> I would imagine that dictionary attacks would, now, also try mixing
> together some words in various ways.  I think that if you have trouble
> deciding on what to use for a password, you'd really want to take about
> three words, at least, scramble the letters into gibberish, and use
> that, making your password as long as the system will let you.  You do
> want to make it so that any brute force attempt on your password takes
> as much time as you can make it.
> 
Another interesting way to have a fairly strong password, but still
be able to remember it is to come up with a sentence or phrase. Then
take the first letter of each word, and use that as your password.
It would be better if there were some numbers/special symbols in it,
but it is a big improvement over most passwords. For example, you
could take my signature and create a password of Dnmitaod,ftacatgwk
- try a dictionary attack on that. (Probably too long a password for
most places, but you get the idea.)

Mikkel
-- 

  Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons,
for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!

[Index of Archives]     [Older Fedora Users]     [Fedora Announce]     [Fedora Package Announce]     [EPEL Announce]     [Fedora Magazine]     [Fedora News]     [Fedora Summer Coding]     [Fedora Laptop]     [Fedora Cloud]     [Fedora Advisory Board]     [Fedora Education]     [Fedora Security]     [Fedora Scitech]     [Fedora Robotics]     [Fedora Maintainers]     [Fedora Infrastructure]     [Fedora Websites]     [Anaconda Devel]     [Fedora Devel Java]     [Fedora Legacy]     [Fedora Desktop]     [Fedora Fonts]     [ATA RAID]     [Fedora Marketing]     [Fedora Management Tools]     [Fedora Mentors]     [SSH]     [Fedora Package Review]     [Fedora R Devel]     [Fedora PHP Devel]     [Kickstart]     [Fedora Music]     [Fedora Packaging]     [Centos]     [Fedora SELinux]     [Fedora Legal]     [Fedora Kernel]     [Fedora OCaml]     [Coolkey]     [Virtualization Tools]     [ET Management Tools]     [Yum Users]     [Tux]     [Yosemite News]     [Gnome Users]     [KDE Users]     [Fedora Art]     [Fedora Docs]     [Asterisk PBX]     [Fedora Sparc]     [Fedora Universal Network Connector]     [Libvirt Users]     [Fedora ARM]

  Powered by Linux