And similarly, if your argument, that all passwords must be difficult to type and must be near impossible to read over the shoulder or else they are REALLY BAD, which in turn makes the user STUPID seems naive and ignorant to any basic practical, efficient, easy to remember methods of memorization.
The password: "Eth@ngoesoutofh1swaytocr3ategreatpasswords!" Is more complex than your example and not subject to a common rainbow attack. In addition, also requires less memorization to retain, since it relies on relational ideas in our of long term memory. To call someone stupid for choosing this password seems a big harsh on a percentage of the population that's going to *better* lengths to secure their data. Stating "password1" is stupid is accurate for several reasons, however, does that in turn make all easily retainable passwords stupid as well? I for one tend to choose something closer to a sentence over hard to type and remember character strings? Am I and most people I know doing it wrong? Is there something about passwords WE are naive to? On Aug 25, 2013 12:50 PM, "Ethan Blanton" <e...@pidgin.im> wrote: > Matthias Apitz spake unto us the following wisdom: > > $ echo 'Oj4=puC/8jq' | openssl enc -base64 > > T2o0PXB1Qy84anEK > > If your assertion is that someone will remember Oj4=puC/8jq but not > T2o0PXB1Qy84anEK, then your argument has descended into the realm of > the absurd. To effectively snatch either one they're going to have to > either see it for a long time, see it many times, or take some sort of > photo/record. > > Ethan > > _______________________________________________ > Support@pidgin.im mailing list > Want to unsubscribe? Use this link: > http://pidgin.im/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support >
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