RE: Length vs Complexity

["David Gillett" <gillettdavid () fhda edu>]

 "Security.Basics.List" is likely to take longer to brute force without
additional intelligence than "D*3ft!".  It's also easier to remember -- and
easier to guess, and if you know your target uses that sort of thing as a
password, you can shorten the brute force time significantly.

  As usual with metrics:  Brute force time is *easy to measure*, but may not
be an adequate metric for what we really want: "better security".

David Gillett

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Razzell [mailto:m.razzell () gmail com]
Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2010 10:02
To: security-basics () securityfocus com
Subject: Length vs Complexity

Users hear constantly that they should add complexity to their passwords,
but from the math of it doesn't length beat complexity (assuming they don't
just choose a long word)?  This is not to suggest they should not use
special characters, but simply that something like Security.Basics.List
would provide better security than D*3ft!7z.  Is that correct?

Thanks,
-Mike

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