• find out how secure your password is here

    From Matt Munson@VERT/INLANDUT to All on Mon Mar 7 00:32:18 2011
    Hello everybody.

    http://howsecureismypassword.net/


    Matt




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  • From Cykros@VERT to Matt Munson on Tue Mar 8 11:06:15 2011
    Re: find out how secure your password is here
    By: Matt Munson to All on Sun Mar 06 2011 07:32 pm

    Hello everybody.

    http://howsecureismypassword.net/


    Matt

    I always find that the easy way to have really secure passwords that are still easy to remember (how to recall anyway) is to use an md5 hash of a standard password, and then throw on the first or first and last letter of whatever
    site the password is for. eg, the output from 'md5 -s passwordFK', or "0e558d0c942cea84ff756abefc106c9b", would be the result for a facebook password, where "password" is your standard root. This allows for quite
    random passwords, with an easy to remember formula, so the urge to write them down is gone, and in the meantime, you're also not pulled into the lazy trap
    of using the same password everywhere. Also, md5 hashes can be looked up at a variety of websites, just in case the system you're at doesn't have the
    command installed. I find it to be much more elegant than software password management tools.

    Anyway, just throwing that out there, seemed on topic.

    cykros


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  • From thinktank@VERT/INLANDUT to Digital Man on Thu Mar 10 22:54:48 2011
    Re: find out how secure your password is here
    By: Digital Man to Matt Munson on Thu Mar 10 2011 04:08 pm

    What if they're logging the passwords and IPs?
    maybe we shouldnt use the actual password.
    ~ I am on twitter: @thinktank79 on Twitter ~

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  • From Morden@VERT/MASQBBS to thinktank on Fri Mar 11 11:39:16 2011
    Re: find out how secure your password is here
    By: thinktank to Digital Man on Thu Mar 10 2011 05:54 pm

    What if they're logging the passwords and IPs?
    maybe we shouldnt use the actual password.

    Maybe they're building a dictionary? Haha. Either way, I'd never input my passwords there, and I know how secure they are. Secure enough.

    |12|24- |48|15Morden


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  • From Ragnarok@VERT/DOCKSUD to Digital Man on Sun Mar 13 19:14:52 2011
    El 10/03/11 21:08, Digital Man escribi≤:
    Re: find out how secure your password is here
    By: Matt Munson to All on Sun Mar 06 2011 07:32 pm

    > Hello everybody.
    >
    > http://howsecureismypassword.net/

    What if they're logging the passwords and IPs?

    digital man

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  • From Fargo@VERT/PHARCYDE to Morden on Wed Mar 16 14:43:07 2011
    Re: find out how secure your password is here
    By: Morden to thinktank on Fri Mar 11 2011 06:39 am

    Maybe they're building a dictionary? Haha. Either way, I'd never input my

    Yeah, that's probably what they are up to :)
    also, they should check the password against a good wordlist.

    Otherwise the whole check is kinda unuseful.


    -Fargo

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  • From Digital Man@VERT to Matt Munson on Thu Mar 10 21:08:21 2011
    Re: find out how secure your password is here
    By: Matt Munson to All on Sun Mar 06 2011 07:32 pm

    Hello everybody.

    http://howsecureismypassword.net/

    What if they're logging the passwords and IPs?

    digital man

    Snapple "Real Fact" #50:
    Mosquitos have 47 teeth.

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