big greg
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Re: Dictionary for Password Strength Testing
Excellent link! Thanks! |
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Mospaw
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| Our IT manager is encouraging the use of "pass phrases" instead of passwords. Something like "Mospaw is a genius." or even "Four score and seven years ago" to type in. Nice and long, and very difficult to guess. You could even have "Four score and 7 years ago" to make it harder to guess, but still very easy to remember.
The only issue is that some applications/web sites may limit password length, so the longer phrases may be problematic. I would think that 80 characters would handle just about all reasonable pass phrases. |
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Jason Levine
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USA
| I encourage passphrases too. Not only are they hard to guess, but they're pretty easy to remember. "We're off to see the wizard!" is a 28 character password/phrase that's pretty secure and easier to remember than "1ri&br#a#ho9thiucoe!l27ieslu"
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http://www.urateit.com/ |
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