[Klug-general] password testing/cracking

[Colin McCarthy]

On 26 March 2013 05:53, Dan Attwood <danattwood at gmail.com> wrote:

> https://xkcd.com/936/
>
> is probably as good as explanation as you'll likely to get
>

I use a combination of words like this system. It's surprisingly easy to
remember a 16+ character password that way.

This article although incredible long is extremely interesting on the
subject of passwords
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/11/ff-mat-honan-password-hacker/all/

It does not matter now long your password is if it's still easy to trick a
machine or Apple agent into resetting your account.



>
> 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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