From: Rich Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Coming up with a password that is very strong.
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2019 15:19:49 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGfcS_nTMxTGd-YqLXvTpRLn7xaZNC7UsWN7kp7AXPN0D26mPw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cdd8a328-ad56-69d1-7852-8b0826ebe03e@gmail.com>
On Mon, Feb 4, 2019 at 3:09 PM Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm not sure if one can convert that to NSA time or not. o_O The
> password contains upper/lower case letters, couple symbols from up top
> of the number keys and several numbers. None of which anyone would be
> able to guess in any way. They have nothing to do with that list of
> things not to use, birthdays etc. If a person was trying to just guess
> it, even a best friend who knows me extremely well, they would not be
> able to guess it much less the order of it. The only bad thing, it
> isn't to easy to type. Of course, a really good password usually isn't
> so . . .
And do you use that password on only a single site?
If you use it on more than one, then as soon as one of those sites is
compromised it will sniff your password and then your password can be
used on all the others without any cpu cycles wasted on brute-forcing
it at all.
That is the weakness of random passwords. Unless you use some kind of
password manager you won't actually use a unique password on each site
due to difficulty with memorization...
--
Rich
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-02-04 20:20 UTC|newest]
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 ` [gentoo-user] " Neil Bothwick
2019-02-04 13:43 ` 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 [this message]
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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