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Do you think it is worth the admins having a scan of the passwords to see if any have particularly weak passwords advising them to change them?
They should all be hashed, nobody should be able to view any of the passwords.

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My old password was hashed. It was "########" without the speech marks. :roll: ;)

Sorry, that was a bit weak, even for me.

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Password updated - as an unrememberable string of random characters. Thankfully, 1Password can remember this for me.

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Password updated - as an unrememberable string of random characters. Thankfully, 1Password can remember this for me.

Do you ever use the pronounceable option or avoid ambiguous characters?

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Password updated - as an unrememberable string of random characters. Thankfully, 1Password can remember this for me.

Do you ever use the pronounceable option or avoid ambiguous characters?

I do use pronounceable, but I still won't be able to remember it.

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paulzolo wrote:
Password updated - as an unrememberable string of random characters. Thankfully, 1Password can remember this for me.

Do you ever use the pronounceable option or avoid ambiguous characters?

I do use pronounceable, but I still won't be able to remember it.

My preference is for unambiguous characters which makes it easier to read out.


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timark_uk wrote:
Amnesia10 wrote:
Do you think it is worth the admins having a scan of the passwords to see if any have particularly weak passwords advising them to change them?
They should all be hashed, nobody should be able to view any of the passwords.

Mark



Correct.

We can't see any passwords

Just an example of how weak some hashing is, this journo cracked 45% of 17,000 unsalted md5 hashes in just 3 seconds - once he'd figured out how to use the freely available software, which did take him a few hours:

http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/03 ... d-cracker/

Of course, the 55% he didn't crack were the more secure passwords.

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