I have found making password variations from an easily remembered quoted text to be helpful in creating more complicated passwords. Then, substituting special characters and numbers for different letters. the trouble i have is creating new passwords for every dam site, that is annoying!
My current password strategy can be broken in 8 minutes. But i can’t fix it, because this strategy is designed to make good passwords for work. The mainframe is limited to 8 character passwords. ugh. I use this strategy for passwords i don’t care about. For something like a bank, a $50 box full of video cards will still take millions of years to crack it.
Back around 1990, there was a Unix app named “crack” that would guess all the passwords in /etc/passwd. There were stored the one-way DES encryptions. The 386 on my desk ran “crack” for 3 days (we always left them on), and it guess one password. Not any of the developer’s passwords (these people were all world class). Or even those in sales. It was the division director’s. Sigh. Later i found that the worst security holes in many organizations were at the top, including the CIOs. I think this is a well understood secret in security circles. A daughter’s name. ugh.
sweet, that means it must take near a century for most of my passwords…
I have found making password variations from an easily remembered quoted text to be helpful in creating more complicated passwords. Then, substituting special characters and numbers for different letters. the trouble i have is creating new passwords for every dam site, that is annoying!
My current password strategy can be broken in 8 minutes. But i can’t fix it, because this strategy is designed to make good passwords for work. The mainframe is limited to 8 character passwords. ugh. I use this strategy for passwords i don’t care about. For something like a bank, a $50 box full of video cards will still take millions of years to crack it.
Back around 1990, there was a Unix app named “crack” that would guess all the passwords in /etc/passwd. There were stored the one-way DES encryptions. The 386 on my desk ran “crack” for 3 days (we always left them on), and it guess one password. Not any of the developer’s passwords (these people were all world class). Or even those in sales. It was the division director’s. Sigh. Later i found that the worst security holes in many organizations were at the top, including the CIOs. I think this is a well understood secret in security circles. A daughter’s name. ugh.