Quoting AJ ONeal <[email protected]>:

> I'd like to hear some opinions on some things and invite all to throw stuff
> onto the dokuwiki.

I've been studying to take the Security+ exam recently and read some  
interesting things.  The data on this URL is interesting with regard  
to brute-force attacks:

http://www.lockdown.co.uk/?pg=combi&s=articles

And thanks to rainbow tables, at the time of the publication (2009),  
the book I'm reading claims all Windows OS passwords of 14 characters  
or fewer are useless if the attacker can get a hold of your hash or  
the hash file.


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