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Originally posted by Irate Canadian View PostHere are some tips:
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Here is how I set my password. First I take my first name, spell it backwards, convert it to binary and divide by 20 and convert it back to ascii text. Then I add the first and last 2 digits of my social security number, subtract my last 2 digits of my phone number, convert all "a"s into "@" then append my favorite fruit's name and finally, I add in my birth year...
then when I have all that, I set my password to "bacon"
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Originally posted by RBerman View PostI wonder... are there really "44 bits of entropy" in such a password? If passwords like this are common, then surely hackers will try word combinations from the dictionary first, lowering the number of combinations to X^4, where X is the number of words in the dictionary. That's much less than 2^44.
Length: 19 characters
Character Combinations: 26
Calculations Per Second: 4 billion
Possible Combinations: 766 septillion"It's evolution; every time you invent something fool-proof, the world invents a better fool."
-Unknown
"Preach the gospel, and if necessary use words." - Most likely St.Francis
I find that evolution is the best proof of God.
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Originally posted by Irate Canadian View PostHere are some tips:
Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong.
1 Corinthians 16:13
"...he [Doherty] is no historian and he is not even conversant with the historical discussions of the very matters he wants to pontificate on."
-Ben Witherington III
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Originally posted by Irate Canadian View PostWhen I inputted Randal's password,this is the specifications it gave me:
Length: 19 characters
Character Combinations: 26
Calculations Per Second: 4 billion
Possible Combinations: 766 septillion
And as Randall notes in the alt text, if the attacker can get the hash table, it's even easier.
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Originally posted by Outis View PostHowever, the tool you're using is measuring letter combinations. RBerman is correct as far as word combinations: a brute-force dictionary attack would be problematically easy, because of the relative ease of dictionary attacks.
And as Randall notes in the alt text, if the attacker can get the hash table, it's even easier.
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Originally posted by RBerman View PostI wonder... are there really "44 bits of entropy" in such a password? If passwords like this are common, then surely hackers will try word combinations from the dictionary first, lowering the number of combinations to X^4, where X is the number of words in the dictionary. That's much less than 2^44.
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Originally posted by Cow Poke View Postmy password is *********
I'm not changing it.
I'm always still in trouble again
"You're by far the worst poster on TWeb" and "TWeb's biggest liar" --starlight (the guy who says Stalin was a right-winger)
"Overall I would rate the withdrawal from Afghanistan as by far the best thing Biden's done" --Starlight
"Of course, human life begins at fertilization that’s not the argument." --Tassman
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Originally posted by Sparko View Postlet me guess. all of your passwords are now "Grassy Knoll" right?
I'm always still in trouble again
"You're by far the worst poster on TWeb" and "TWeb's biggest liar" --starlight (the guy who says Stalin was a right-winger)
"Overall I would rate the withdrawal from Afghanistan as by far the best thing Biden's done" --Starlight
"Of course, human life begins at fertilization that’s not the argument." --Tassman
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Originally posted by Outis View PostAnd as Randall notes in the alt text, if the attacker can get the hash table, it's even easier."It's evolution; every time you invent something fool-proof, the world invents a better fool."
-Unknown
"Preach the gospel, and if necessary use words." - Most likely St.Francis
I find that evolution is the best proof of God.
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Originally posted by Irate Canadian View PostThat's true as far as hash tables created with MD5 hashing. If the group that lost the hash table used something like the BCrypt algorithm, it would take a long,long time to crack the hashes. The problem is most sites use MD5 to store passwords and that allows hackers to easily crack passwords as soon as they get the hash table.
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Originally posted by Outis View PostTrue, but how many pre-packaged websites use BCrypt? Even VB uses MD5, if I remember correctly, and folks like me simply don't have the coding know-how to substitute a better cypher suite."It's evolution; every time you invent something fool-proof, the world invents a better fool."
-Unknown
"Preach the gospel, and if necessary use words." - Most likely St.Francis
I find that evolution is the best proof of God.
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