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Re: Passwords & Passphrases
From: Roger Safian <r-safian () NORTHWESTERN EDU>
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 15:44:02 -0600
At 02:01 PM 11/19/2007, Martin Manjak put fingers to keyboard and wrote:
move beyond 8 characters with mixed case and special characters. I would like to see us require a 15 character pass phrase which, in my view, is more secure (even without complexity), and both easier to type and remember.
Personally I'd love to see a password minimum length of 15 characters. My fear is that a password database get's compromised, and the weak passwords are cracked and bad things take place. I think that 15 characters is a long enough string to make brute force cracking time consuming enough to allow us to change the passwords in a reasonable time-frame. I think the reality is that 15 characters will be too much for the community. We'll see. -- Roger A. Safian r-safian () northwestern edu (email) public key available on many key servers. (847) 491-4058 (voice) (847) 467-6500 (Fax) "You're never too old to have a great childhood!"
Current thread:
- Re: Passwords & Passphrases, (continued)
- Re: Passwords & Passphrases Julian J Thompson (jthmpsn2) (Nov 19)
- Re: Passwords & Passphrases Shane Bishop (Nov 19)
- Re: Passwords & Passphrases Sweeny, Jonny (Nov 19)
- Re: Passwords & Passphrases Shane Bishop (Nov 19)
- Re: Passwords & Passphrases Martin Manjak (Nov 19)
- Re: Passwords & Passphrases Gary Flynn (Nov 19)
- Re: Passwords & Passphrases Peters, Kevin (Nov 19)
- Re: Passwords & Passphrases Randy Marchany (Nov 19)
- Re: Passwords & Passphrases Gene Spafford (Nov 19)
- Re: Passwords & Passphrases Roger Safian (Nov 19)
- Re: Passwords & Passphrases Roger Safian (Nov 19)
- Re: Passwords & Passphrases Harold Winshel (Nov 19)
- Re: Passwords & Passphrases Steven Alexander (Nov 19)
- Re: Passwords & Passphrases Alex (Nov 19)
- Re: Passwords & Passphrases Harold Winshel (Nov 19)
- Re: Passwords & Passphrases Harold Winshel (Nov 19)
- Re: Passwords & Passphrases Peters, Kevin (Nov 19)
- Re: Passwords & Passphrases Gene Spafford (Nov 19)
- Re: Passwords & Passphrases Peters, Kevin (Nov 19)
- Re: Passwords & Passphrases Bob Bayn (Nov 19)
- Re: Passwords & Passphrases Gene Spafford (Nov 19)
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