Incoming from Mathieu Ducharme: > On July 22, 2004 10:59 pm, s. keeling wrote: > > Incoming from Scarletdown: > > > An example of a good password (though since I'm posting it here, it can > > > no longer be considered good) is: > > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > I disagree. A cracking program is going to attempt to match > > permutations of dictionary words. This will not add much more time to > > > > b1rDW0rm > > I'm pretty sure dictionary attack also look for this. (?)
It was just an example. I sprinkle liberally with punctuation. :-) > Use other characters that will make the word absolutely not dictionary related > > x[([EMAIL PROTECTED])~(w0rD)]x However, if you haven't moved to RSA based longer passwords, that's effectively "x[([EMAIL PROTECTED])" (which isn't bad, but you may be typing more than is recognized). Stock passwords are eight chars. The rest are ignored. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling - - -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
