On 8/17/2013 1:54 PM, Walt Farrell wrote:
Where possible, you can switch to the use of password phrases rather than passwords. You're right that the brute fore attacks are increasingly simple for mere 8-byte passwords, but password phrases give you longer values (minimum 14 by default, though you can decrease that to 9 with an exit) that will be harder. And with commonly available technology it's perhaps impossible today if you have only a slightly longer string.
My last employer, before my retirement, addressed the problem by giving each employee a gadget that displayed a password that changed about every minute. The only drawback was that it required a three-hour drive to the office to have it synchronized ever few months. Password phrases would have made it even trickier to enter the complete string before the algorithm kicked over to a new value?
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