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John_Vella
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 7:55 am Posts: 7935 Location: Manchester.
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My old password was hashed. It was "########" without the speech marks. Sorry, that was a bit weak, even for me. Sent from my GT-N7000 using Tapatalk 2
_________________John Vella BSc (Hons), PGCE - Still the official forum prankster and crude remarker Sorry I'll behave now. Promise
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Wed Mar 20, 2013 6:27 pm |
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paulzolo
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:27 pm Posts: 12251
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Password updated - as an unrememberable string of random characters. Thankfully, 1Password can remember this for me.
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Wed Mar 20, 2013 7:44 pm |
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Amnesia10
Legend
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 2:02 am Posts: 29240 Location: Guantanamo Bay (thanks bobbdobbs)
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Do you ever use the pronounceable option or avoid ambiguous characters?
_________________Do concentrate, 007... "You are gifted. Mine is bordering on seven seconds." https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTg5MzczNTkhttp://astore.amazon.co.uk/wwwx404couk-21
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Wed Mar 20, 2013 8:30 pm |
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paulzolo
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:27 pm Posts: 12251
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I do use pronounceable, but I still won't be able to remember it.
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Wed Mar 20, 2013 10:46 pm |
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Amnesia10
Legend
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 2:02 am Posts: 29240 Location: Guantanamo Bay (thanks bobbdobbs)
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My preference is for unambiguous characters which makes it easier to read out. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk.
_________________Do concentrate, 007... "You are gifted. Mine is bordering on seven seconds." https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTg5MzczNTkhttp://astore.amazon.co.uk/wwwx404couk-21
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Thu Mar 21, 2013 4:45 am |
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JJW009
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:58 pm Posts: 8767 Location: behind the sofa
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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.
_________________jonbwfc's law: "In any forum thread someone will, no matter what the subject, mention Firefly." When you're feeling too silly for x404, youRwired.net
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