From: Kai Peter <kp@lists.openqmail.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Coming up with a password that is very strong.
Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2019 15:26:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e5f77659034708cbeebc30cac6e1d4f5@lists.openqmail.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190205211653.57d0b0dc@digimed.co.uk>
On 2019-02-05 22:17, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Feb 2019 04:28:49 +0800, Mark David Dumlao wrote:
>
>> My own solution is actually very simple. I have a "secret algorithm"
>> that incorporates several secrets with a predictable way to generate a
>> site-specific secret. The end result is a 100% predictable way to
>> generate unique passwords for every site that are cryptographically
>> secure from each other (you cannot derive
>> one from the other) which can be generated by any device using the
>> appropriate tools.
>
> The was a tool in portage this did this. I tried it but it did not work
> in the real world because you couldn't set a rule for generated
> passwords
> that matched the requirements of all sites, for example some require a
> non-alphanumeric character while other sites only allow alphanumerics.
>
> I can remember what the tools was called, although I'm pretty sure it
> was written in Python. I'd be interested to know how you get around the
> conflicting restrictions as this seems a good way to do things.
By using an existing tool you have to live with its restrictions always.
But who says that it could not be done? At least Mark's solution will
(maybe) not work for everybody (yet), but he did think about an issue
and found a way/solution which sounds really reasonable.
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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 ` [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 [this message]
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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