On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 04:46:38PM -0600, Brent Thomson wrote: > I've always thought it was unfortunate that the term "password" caught > on instead of "pass phrase", "pass code", or "secret" since "password" > seems to imply that you should select an actual word and just one word.
I had no idea one could put spaces in a passphrase; just tried it for the first time minutes ago. On that note, wouldn't one implementing a password guessing program have an easy job stringing dictionary words together? I mean, it gets expensive doing all combinations of words (and all combinations of interleaved white space possibilities), but it seems to me that the extra length (total characters) doesn't buy as much if cracking programs guess words instead of (or in concert with) letter guessing ... -- Stephen M. McQuay http://mcquay.me/vcf -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info (unsubscribe here): http://uug.byu.edu/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
