Any hacker or cryptologist will disagree with this. As you go up in length for passwords they are less secure using just letters and numbers, than using symbols in addition. A case insensitive compilation of a-z, A-Z, and 0-9 contains 62 symbol counts, while all of the American standard code for information interchange characters result in a symbol count of 94. An attacker has to generate approximately 50% of the possible combinations to achieve success; if the possible combinations (enhanced by symbol counts) are increased, it will take the attacker longer and be more difficult for them to crack the password.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of ics Sent: Saturday, September 11, 2010 5:29 PM To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list Subject: Re: [hlds] SRCDS Protect Tips Any password such as S5Df2lf5F0skj4On or Fs3Kl89Gh57kLG was secure as it can be, without any extra marks like @,%,& etc. Also it does not help to have a good password if that is leaking from the server itself all the time to the hostile attackers so first of all, keep the server secured and run plugins to prevent malicious exploits. Just keep that in mind. -ics 11.9.2010 23:24, Mark Gunnett kirjoitti: > Just an FYI, the server does not like some of the passwords with characters > when set in the commandline. Even with quotes... Well from TF2 in my > experience. Specifically the @ symbol. > > -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] >> Sent: Saturday, September 11, 2010 3:51 PM >> To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list >> Subject: Re: [hlds] SRCDS Protect Tips >> >> Use a password generator for strong passwords. >> >> Search for "PC Tools Password Utilities" in your favorite search website >> for >> example- >> >> I'm using passwords with puncation, mixed case. non-repeating chars, >> numbers >> with 8 to 32 >> chars. >> >> If you can't memorise the passwords, youse the old method, biro/pencil a >> sheet of paper! ;) >> > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
