[suse-security] need a way to set more secure 8character passwords
** "from the bottom of my heart, off the coast of Carolina, after one or two false starts ** Someone, apparently, hacked my email account ...snip... or paper or something about nonsense passwords that could be remembered ...snip... TIA to any and all who attempt to help , I wish you happiness.. and offer extra good karma points to anyone who has an idea. =========================================================== Seems to be I have read an recent (this year) article about that subject. And, if memory serves correctly, it basically said something on the order of NOT using words stuck together with special characters, and obviously not just words (on newer computers, dictionary attacks are too quick for you to react) and just numbers are even quicker to crack. The suggestion was letters (plus other characters) that mean something to you, which are not acronyms, but closer to mnemonics. Example mlg.is!2 could mean something like "my little girl is 2" or Ilc.bSd could mean "I like chocolate. but SHE doesn't" mix numbers, special characters, and don't use words (except for you to remember it). fwiw2u (for what it's worth "2" you) Good Luck
Am Samstag, 6. November 2004 08:14 schrieb Bill.Light@kp.org:
TIA to any and all who attempt to help , I wish you happiness.. and offer extra good karma points to anyone who has an idea.
man pwgen i found that the random passwords that pwgen generates are still really easy to memorize. bye, MH
On Saturday 06 November 2004 1:14 am, Bill.Light@kp.org wrote:
Seems to be I have read an recent (this year) article about that subject. And, if memory serves correctly, it basically said something on the order of NOT using words stuck together with special characters, and obviously not just words (on newer computers, dictionary attacks are too quick for you to react) and just numbers are even quicker to crack. The suggestion was letters (plus other characters) that mean something to you, which are not acronyms, but closer to mnemonics. Example mlg.is!2 could mean something like "my little girl is 2" or Ilc.bSd could mean "I like chocolate. but SHE doesn't" mix numbers, special characters, and don't use words (except for you to remember it).
fwiw2u (for what it's worth "2" you)
Good Luck
Another idea is to use a phrase that is something you would never say out loud to anyone. Usually this is an obscene phrase but could be anything that you are not generally thought to be aware of or have any knowledge of by friends, family or associates. Something such that it would be an illogical assumption that you would say it in public or private. Your own little inside joke. Bill's ideas are good. For the truly paranoid, take it a step further so that the phrase has nothing to do with your everyday life at all. Stan
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