Wall Street Journal reports security breach against LinkedIn passwords

2012-06-07 Thread Lloyd Kvam
Today's WSJ reported in the Digits column that encrypted LinkedIN passwords had been leaked. Decryption efforts have been successful against some subset of these passwords. I was disappointed to see no acknowledgement on the LinkIn site. (I just found it buried in the clutter. Its a link to

Re: Wall Street Journal reports security breach against LinkedIn passwords

2012-06-07 Thread Brian St. Pierre
On 06/07/2012 07:33 AM, Lloyd Kvam wrote: Today's WSJ reported in the Digits column that encrypted LinkedIN passwords had been leaked. Decryption efforts have been successful against some subset of these passwords. I was disappointed to see no acknowledgement on the LinkIn site. (I just

Re: Wall Street Journal reports security breach against LinkedIn passwords

2012-06-07 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Brian St. Pierre br...@bstpierre.org writes: On 06/07/2012 07:33 AM, Lloyd Kvam wrote: Today's WSJ reported in the Digits column that encrypted LinkedIN passwords had been leaked. Decryption efforts have been successful against some subset of these passwords. I was disappointed to see

Re: Wall Street Journal reports security breach against LinkedIn passwords

2012-06-07 Thread Tom Buskey
On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 8:36 AM, Brian St. Pierre br...@bstpierre.orgwrote: On 06/07/2012 07:33 AM, Lloyd Kvam wrote: Today's WSJ reported in the Digits column that encrypted LinkedIN passwords had been leaked. Decryption efforts have been successful against some subset of these passwords.

Re: Wall Street Journal reports security breach against LinkedIn passwords

2012-06-07 Thread John Abreau
I normally use apg -m 14 to generate random 14-character passwords so I have a unique password for each and every website I register with. apg is in the Fedora yum repo and the CentOS EL repo; its website is at http://www.adel.nursat.kz/apg/ I would imagine it's also available for debian,

Re: Wall Street Journal reports security breach against LinkedIn passwords

2012-06-07 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
John Abreau j...@blu.org writes: I normally use apg -m 14 to generate random 14-character passwords so I have a unique password for each and every website I register with. Isn't knowing what the class of password we need to guess half the battle? -- Don't be afraid to ask (λf.((λx.xx)

Re: Wall Street Journal reports security breach against LinkedIn passwords

2012-06-07 Thread John Abreau
Well, I often vary the length; some of my passwords are 48 characters. A lot of websites limit the maximum length they'll accept for passwords, typically to something far less than 48. I'd be curious to hear if there's a command-line password generator that's better than apg, or if apg has any

Re: Wall Street Journal reports security breach against LinkedIn passwords

2012-06-07 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 06/07/2012 02:40 PM, John Abreau wrote: Well, I often vary the length; some of my passwords are 48 characters. A lot of websites limit the maximum length they'll accept for passwords, typically to something far less than 48. I'd be curious to hear if there's a command-line password

Re: Wall Street Journal reports security breach against LinkedIn passwords

2012-06-07 Thread Michael Lowry
I've been using pwgen to generate password (stored in a pgp encrypted file). I know pwgen is in the Fedora repo. Michael On Thu, 07 Jun 2012 16:21:03 -0400 Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org wrote: On 06/07/2012 02:40 PM, John Abreau wrote: Well, I often vary the length; some of my passwords are 48

StatusNet, anyone?

2012-06-07 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Anyone else doing anything interesting with StatusNet? -- Don't be afraid to ask (λf.((λx.xx) (λr.f(rr. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/