On Thursday 03 Feb 2005 12:51, Daniel Carrera wrote: > Christian Einfeldt wrote: > > WRT to number four, I can't believe that someone would guess my > > passwords. They are events in my life that no one but me knows > > about. How would anyone guess that? Even now that I have > > announced it to the world? Heh. > > Easy. > > 1) Start by running it through a dictionary including every word in > English, Spanish and French. This would include the names of people, > cities, countries, etc. > > If your password can be obtained through this method, you're screwed. > A computer will find it in 2 minutes. > > 2) Then go through the list again making simple changes to the > entries like various capitalizations, revernsing the letters, adding > or removing a few letters, or modifying a few letters. > > If your password can be obtained through this method, you would be > only a mildly inconvenient target. The attacker would have to go out > for lunch while the computer finds your password. > > 3) Then try quasi-random collections of characters that still bear a > resemblance to English phonetics. For example, "wasnunco". > > If your password can be guessed with this method, you are still > screwed.
Then something like "my silly old dog has too many fleas" msodh2mf is pretty safe by those definitions, and is easily improved like m50d#2mf and so forth. I still don't think I need a program to make my passwords... Actually I'd probably be fairly safe even with my dog's name dukhat, but I wouldn't try it... tim -- --------------------------------------------------------- Tim & Therese Fairchild Atchafalaya Border Collies. Kuttabul, Queensland, Australia. --------------------------------------------------------- Email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage http://www.bcs4me.com --------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
