From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Coming up with a password that is very strong.
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2019 13:21:57 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190204132157.37cc49bc@digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <12204550.2pT58cCFQF@dell_xps>
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On Mon, 04 Feb 2019 11:17:13 +0000, Mick wrote:
> > https://xkcd.com/936/
>
> Not strictly true ... the crackers would probably use rainbow tables
> attacks first. Also, it isn't fair to compare an 11 character passwd
> against a 25 character passwd. For the *same* number of characters
> used in any given passwd, a random lower/upper/numerical/symbol passwd
> will provide an exponentially higher degree of difficulty in cracking
> it with brute force, than one which uses only lower case dictionary
> words. Anyway, these days many attacks are focused on OS or hardware
> vulnerabilities which have been baked in by design, rather than brute
> force attacks.
I'm not sure xkcd is meant to be taken that seriously...
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Neil Bothwick
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Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-02-04 5:47 [gentoo-user] Coming up with a password that is very strong Dale
2019-02-04 10:24 ` Peter Humphrey
2019-02-04 10:37 ` Neil Bothwick
2019-02-04 11:17 ` Mick
2019-02-04 11:48 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2019-02-04 13:21 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2019-02-04 13:43 ` [gentoo-user] " Rich Freeman
2019-02-05 6:48 ` Dale
2019-02-05 9:55 ` Mick
2019-02-05 10:04 ` Michael Schwartzkopff
2019-02-05 10:18 ` Dale
2019-02-05 10:13 ` Dale
2019-02-05 11:21 ` Mick
2019-02-05 12:46 ` Dale
2019-02-04 11:10 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2019-02-04 19:38 ` Jack
2019-02-04 20:51 ` Neil Bothwick
2019-02-05 20:28 ` Mark David Dumlao
2019-02-05 21:17 ` Neil Bothwick
2019-02-06 2:41 ` Mark David Dumlao
2019-02-08 14:26 ` Kai Peter
2019-02-08 20:59 ` Neil Bothwick
2019-02-09 0:19 ` Dale
2019-02-09 10:06 ` Neil Bothwick
2019-02-09 10:42 ` Dale
2019-02-09 16:02 ` Alec Ten Harmsel
2019-02-13 16:31 ` Rich Freeman
2019-02-13 17:12 ` Mark David Dumlao
2019-02-13 19:17 ` Rich Freeman
2019-02-13 21:34 ` Mark David Dumlao
2019-02-13 21:50 ` Rich Freeman
2019-02-04 20:49 ` Dale
2019-02-04 20:59 ` Rich Freeman
2019-02-04 21:06 ` Neil Bothwick
2019-02-04 22:12 ` Dale
2019-02-04 23:18 ` Rich Freeman
2019-02-05 7:34 ` Dale
2019-02-05 14:13 ` Rich Freeman
2019-02-05 16:00 ` Dale
2019-02-04 23:26 ` Mick
2019-02-05 7:55 ` Dale
2019-02-05 11:34 ` Mick
2019-02-05 13:05 ` Dale
2019-02-05 8:41 ` Neil Bothwick
2019-02-05 9:28 ` Mick
2019-02-05 12:27 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2019-02-04 16:42 ` [gentoo-user] " Laurence Perkins
2019-02-04 18:39 ` Lee Clagett
2019-02-04 20:09 ` [gentoo-user] " Dale
2019-02-04 20:19 ` Rich Freeman
2019-02-04 21:39 ` Dale
2019-02-04 22:34 ` [gentoo-user] " Tanstaafl
2019-02-05 1:10 ` Dale
2019-02-05 19:49 ` Tanstaafl
2019-02-05 23:50 ` Dale
2019-02-06 18:13 ` Tanstaafl
2019-02-05 4:42 ` Roger J. H. Welsh
2019-02-10 16:12 ` Andrew Savchenko
2019-02-10 16:27 ` Dale
2019-02-10 16:59 ` Andrew Savchenko
2019-02-10 18:13 ` Mark David Dumlao
2019-02-10 22:44 ` Dale
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