[Klug-general] password testing/cracking

[David Halliday]

My 2c

When it comes to easy to remember passwords I always suggest interleaving
two words easy to remember. e.g.
mum
dad
=
mduamd

You can write the words down and as long as people don't know the "secret"
then it's safe.
You can also do change letters to numbers. Again, no need to write that
down.

This guy has written LOTs on the subject, here is one:
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/01/choosing_secure.html
If you are interested in security, his blog is probably the best place to
start gaining knowledge, ideas and understanding.


On 26 March 2013 11:54, Colin McCarthy <binarysignal at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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