Comments on: How to make great passwords http://www.defendingthekingdom.com/archives/how-to-make-great-passwords Security and Privacy in Your Digital Life Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:59:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: The backdoor problem | Defending The Kingdom: Security and Privacy in Your Digital Life http://www.defendingthekingdom.com/archives/how-to-make-great-passwords/comment-page-1#comment-23581 The backdoor problem | Defending The Kingdom: Security and Privacy in Your Digital Life Thu, 22 Dec 2011 06:52:37 +0000 http://www.defendingthekingdom.com/archives/how-to-make-great-passwords#comment-23581 [...] the possibility that you forget the master password that unlocks the database. If you’ve used this method, that should never happen. But sometimes bad things do happen, and you should plan for that. [...] [...] the possibility that you forget the master password that unlocks the database. If you’ve used this method, that should never happen. But sometimes bad things do happen, and you should plan for that. [...]

]]> By: Shop online safely | Defending The Kingdom: Security and Privacy in Your Digital Life http://www.defendingthekingdom.com/archives/how-to-make-great-passwords/comment-page-1#comment-17915 Shop online safely | Defending The Kingdom: Security and Privacy in Your Digital Life Sun, 28 Nov 2010 19:10:44 +0000 http://www.defendingthekingdom.com/archives/how-to-make-great-passwords#comment-17915 [...] as changing your password to something marginally more complex than the typical internet user’s password makes you an undesirable target, doing a bit of [...] [...] as changing your password to something marginally more complex than the typical internet user’s password makes you an undesirable target, doing a bit of [...]

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]]> By: Don’t settle for weak passwords | Defending The Kingdom: Security and Privacy in Your Digital Life http://www.defendingthekingdom.com/archives/how-to-make-great-passwords/comment-page-1#comment-14451 Don’t settle for weak passwords | Defending The Kingdom: Security and Privacy in Your Digital Life Sun, 06 Dec 2009 11:03:52 +0000 http://www.defendingthekingdom.com/archives/how-to-make-great-passwords#comment-14451 [...] If you want a simple way to create, store, and use strong passwords, get Password Safe.You need only remember one password - the master password that grants access to your password database. Making a suitable password is easy, as I’ve written about before. [...] [...] If you want a simple way to create, store, and use strong passwords, get Password Safe.You need only remember one password – the master password that grants access to your password database. Making a suitable password is easy, as I’ve written about before. [...]

]]> By: white knight 1012222 http://www.defendingthekingdom.com/archives/how-to-make-great-passwords/comment-page-1#comment-9611 white knight 1012222 Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:40:55 +0000 http://www.defendingthekingdom.com/archives/how-to-make-great-passwords#comment-9611 Makeing a completly random encrtyped password from grc.com is probably a good start there are many other good sites out there to use anyother thing i like to do is copy and past my passwords to a wordpad document<place in new folder dont call it passwords!!! call it pics or downloads...and encrypt the main mother file...then transfer it to flash drive this will secure it even more and you will always have it for future reference incase of a meltdown or hardware failiar...hope this helps some people! Makeing a completly random encrtyped password from grc.com is probably a good start there are many other good sites out there to use anyother thing i like to do is copy and past my passwords to a wordpad document<place in new folder dont call it passwords!!! call it pics or downloads…and encrypt the main mother file…then transfer it to flash drive this will secure it even more and you will always have it for future reference incase of a meltdown or hardware failiar…hope this helps some people!

]]> By: What’s your secret question? | Defending The Kingdom: Security and Privacy in Your Digital Life http://www.defendingthekingdom.com/archives/how-to-make-great-passwords/comment-page-1#comment-6546 What’s your secret question? | Defending The Kingdom: Security and Privacy in Your Digital Life Sat, 27 Sep 2008 13:34:12 +0000 http://www.defendingthekingdom.com/archives/how-to-make-great-passwords#comment-6546 [...] Making strong and easy to remember passwords is amazingly easy. But what do you do when you’re asked to choose a secret question for an account - something like, “What is your mother’s maiden name?” or “What was the name of your first pet?” [...] [...] Making strong and easy to remember passwords is amazingly easy. But what do you do when you’re asked to choose a secret question for an account – something like, “What is your mother’s maiden name?” or “What was the name of your first pet?” [...]

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]]> By: Ian Saxon http://www.defendingthekingdom.com/archives/how-to-make-great-passwords/comment-page-1#comment-3887 Ian Saxon Sat, 15 Dec 2007 16:48:58 +0000 http://www.defendingthekingdom.com/archives/how-to-make-great-passwords#comment-3887 Idetrorce, care to explain why? Idetrorce, care to explain why?

]]> By: Idetrorce http://www.defendingthekingdom.com/archives/how-to-make-great-passwords/comment-page-1#comment-3886 Idetrorce Sat, 15 Dec 2007 15:14:55 +0000 http://www.defendingthekingdom.com/archives/how-to-make-great-passwords#comment-3886 very interesting, but I don't agree with you Idetrorce very interesting, but I don’t agree with you
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]]> By: gregor http://www.defendingthekingdom.com/archives/how-to-make-great-passwords/comment-page-1#comment-2056 gregor Mon, 03 Sep 2007 15:35:06 +0000 http://www.defendingthekingdom.com/archives/how-to-make-great-passwords#comment-2056 Ian, very true, using the sentence approach is *way* better than using your wife's name or a birthday as a password. when i wrote the comment i was thinking about my first usage of a really safe password - it was a computer-generated one that i could not change. i hated it in the beginning, but even now, years after i used it for the last time i still remember it - and nobody could have ever gussed it. as for the advantage of the non-random distributions of characters: when an attacker tries to guess a password he is likely to get a match with a sentence-password earlier than with a truly random one. because he can test for those passwords with more common characters first. suppose the attacker thinks "the password probably does not contain the five characters that are least likely the beginning of an english word". that would save a substantial amount of time crunching through all possible combinations than including those 5. but i admit, for long passwords this will only be a theoretical advantage. because it really doesn't matter whether the attacker needs one million or two million years to find the password :) Ian,

very true, using the sentence approach is *way* better than using your wife’s name or a birthday as a password. when i wrote the comment i was thinking about my first usage of a really safe password – it was a computer-generated one that i could not change. i hated it in the beginning, but even now, years after i used it for the last time i still remember it – and nobody could have ever gussed it.

as for the advantage of the non-random distributions of characters: when an attacker tries to guess a password he is likely to get a match with a sentence-password earlier than with a truly random one. because he can test for those passwords with more common characters first. suppose the attacker thinks “the password probably does not contain the five characters that are least likely the beginning of an english word”. that would save a substantial amount of time crunching through all possible combinations than including those 5. but i admit, for long passwords this will only be a theoretical advantage. because it really doesn’t matter whether the attacker needs one million or two million years to find the password :)

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