On Sun, 2015-02-15 at 22:07 +1030, Tim wrote: > On Sun, 2015-02-15 at 01:04 -0600, g wrote: > > an interesting page on "needles"; > > > > https://www.grc.com/haystack.htm > > "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" gave interesting numbers, but all > you need was three obscure, unrelated, words (e.g. bluepigsskiing) to > come up with some ridiculously difficult to crack passphrases (such as > by dictionary attacks). They don't even have to be hard to type. > > I just don't buy into this malarkey that they must contain numbers, > symbols, and other awkward to type characters. Brute force cracking > is going to be done by a machine, not a human, and they can easily > throw them into the mix. +1 Also, use words from more than one language. Better is to use a password manager (Lastpass, Keepass, PasswordSafe ...) to avoid the temptation of choosing easy passwords and the difficulty of having to remember many different ones. Use one hard to guess password to access the rest. poc -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
