On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 6:07 PM, Patrick Mylund Nielsen <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 5:57 PM, Ben Laurie <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On 14 November 2013 03:29, shawn wilson <[email protected]> wrote: >> > This is the only thing I've seen (haven't really looked): >> > http://stricture-group.com/files/adobe-top100.txt >> >> I have to ask: snoopy1 more popular than snoopy? wtf? > > > Probably people who reuse passwords and are used to sites that require a > number in the password (or "picked" their go-to password when signing up for > a site that did) -- "snoopy1" works more often.
The digit is obviously there because there because of today's password complexity rules used most sites that demand at least one digit or a 3 of 4 char sets of uppercase, lowercase, digits, or special characters. Besides that, (unfortunately) it's a lot easier to change 'snoopy1' to 'snoopy2' then to 'snoopy3', etc. when your password inevitably changes. Plus, it makes a lot easier to remember than to start out with 'sn00py' and then go to 'sn11py', 'sn22py', etc. :-) -kevin -- Blog: http://off-the-wall-security.blogspot.com/ NSA: All your crypto bit are belong to us. _______________________________________________ cryptography mailing list [email protected] http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography
