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Are Short Passwords Really That Insecure?
@howtogeek wrote: Originally published at: http://www.howtogeek.com/165108/are-short-passwords-really-that-insecure/SuperUser reader user31073 is curious whether he should really heed those...
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@AdrianK_IT wrote: Re brute-force attacks, short passwords are more insecure than non-complex ones. The choice of possible passwords, B characters long, from a given number of characters A, is A to...
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@Lucas_Hunt wrote: remembering previous HTG articles on this subject, it would seem that the particular short password given would be safer than a long password such as my1BigButtShy because of the...
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@Jay1 wrote: I think the answers are more geared towards on-line accounts than specifically for completely off-line such as TrueCrypt, Keepass, ect., for something like TrueCrypt it is (as said)...
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@TeddyGeek wrote: The search engine Wolfram Alpha can be used to calculate the strength of passwords in terms of how long it would take a brute force attack to reveal the password. The site is...
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@TeddyGeek wrote: Oops, I forgot to enter the direct link to the password strength: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=password+strength Read full topic
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@TeddyGeek wrote: In Wolfram Alpha, enter password strength of tj4T-b_3.5449 The time to brute force calculate that one is 2.813 trillion years at 100,000 passwords combinations per second. Note that...
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@NSDCars5 wrote: Yay! My Gmail pass is "very strong"! Read full topic
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Are Short Passwords Really That Insecure?
@howtogeek wrote: Originally published at: http://www.howtogeek.com/165108/are-short-passwords-really-that-insecure/SuperUser reader user31073 is curious whether he should really heed those...
View ArticleAre Short Passwords Really That Insecure?
@AdrianK_IT wrote: Re brute-force attacks, short passwords are more insecure than non-complex ones. The choice of possible passwords, B characters long, from a given number of characters A, is A to...
View ArticleAre Short Passwords Really That Insecure?
@Lucas_Hunt wrote: remembering previous HTG articles on this subject, it would seem that the particular short password given would be safer than a long password such as my1BigButtShy because of the...
View ArticleAre Short Passwords Really That Insecure?
@Jay1 wrote: I think the answers are more geared towards on-line accounts than specifically for completely off-line such as TrueCrypt, Keepass, ect., for something like TrueCrypt it is (as said)...
View ArticleAre Short Passwords Really That Insecure?
@TeddyGeek wrote: The search engine Wolfram Alpha can be used to calculate the strength of passwords in terms of how long it would take a brute force attack to reveal the password. The site is...
View ArticleAre Short Passwords Really That Insecure?
@TeddyGeek wrote: Oops, I forgot to enter the direct link to the password strength: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=password+strength Read full topic
View ArticleAre Short Passwords Really That Insecure?
@TeddyGeek wrote: In Wolfram Alpha, enter password strength of tj4T-b_3.5449 The time to brute force calculate that one is 2.813 trillion years at 100,000 passwords combinations per second. Note that...
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@NSDCars5 wrote: Yay! My Gmail pass is "very strong"! Read full topic
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