-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On July 22, 2004 10:59 pm, s. keeling wrote: > Incoming from Scarletdown: > > An example of a good password (though since I'm posting it here, it can > > no longer be considered good) is: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I disagree. A cracking program is going to attempt to match > permutations of dictionary words. This will not add much more time to > reach the solution. Better is concatenation of two strings that won't > match a dictionary pattern: > > b1rDW0rm >
I'm pretty sure dictionary attack also look for this. (?) Use other characters that will make the word absolutely not dictionar- related x[([EMAIL PROTECTED])~(w0rD)]x Still as easy to remember (longer to type though) > > |< == K > > | > > >< == X > > > > > |> == P > > > > Anyone else care to add to this little list? > > Hadn't thought of those. Cute. > > Apparently, the best is to replace crypt based passwords with RSA > based, and use longer passwords. > > > -- > Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. > (*) http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling > - - - -- Mathieu Ducharme [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use GPG to avoid spam trap -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBAIcingfWgVs5hW0RAj20AKDJrhzVJg6isKeIAia/iEaGC3NeHQCgpBkf Yh5JlhDFcg1fCEBwrpaKmvY= =+Wfi -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----