[Klug-general] password testing/cracking

[Dan Attwood]

https://xkcd.com/936/

is probably as good as explanation as you'll likely to get


On 26 March 2013 09:42, james morris <jwm.art.net at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 26 March 2013 07:07, Gary Yeames-Smith <gary at hotel-media.tv> wrote:
> > Another method for password creation is to create a long memorable
> sentence
> > and then take the 1st letter of each word. This results in a easy to
> > remember password which looks completely random to other people.
>
> Why not use the memorable sentence itself? You've still got the first
> letter of each word, but as additional work, all the rest of them too
> ;-)
>
> Which is what I wanted to investigate but I've got a bit stuck as I
> haven't yet managed to crack such blinders as 'crackmenow'.
>
> And as far as memorable sentence creation goes, I'd take a leaf out of
> William S Burroughs' book, and how memorable sentences are constructed
> by the holders of record-breaking memory feats. Suggest seemingly
> nonsense sentences which have some sort of private/internal
> logic/association too it to the user who came up with it.
>
> Which will still be far too much for my parents to cope with.
>
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