[Klug-general] password testing/cracking

[chrisk]

Create a secure crypto on your already encrypted O/S, that will only  be
unencrypted when you need to access a file from within it via password.
Within this secure file system have a password file. Seems pretty secure
to me :)


On Tue, 2013-03-26 at 09:53 +0000, Dan Attwood wrote:
> 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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