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Re: Password Cracking
From: "David J. Bianco" <bianco () jlab org>
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 08:26:58 -0400
GuidoZ wrote:
Most people can remember a date/name, and combining multiples of such can make for good passwords as well. Say you have 3 cats with the names Snowball, Pepper, and Bob. Make your password like "Snowball1Pepper2Bob3" or something to that effect. It's easy for theperson to remember, yet would be difficult for someone to guess.
Even the old Crack program has built-in rules for combining dictionary words with numbers and/or symbols between them when checking passwords. I wouldn't really recommend generating passwords this way. For easy to remember passwords that are still fairly strong, the most common method is to use first letters of words in a sentence, as someone else has already mentioned. If you generate passwords based on dictionary words and numbers/symbols, they probably won't be as strong as you'd like. David -- David J. Bianco, GSEC GCUX GCIH <bianco () jlab org> Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility GPG Fingerprint: D150 8054 5191 29D8 2FEB C2BB C6B9 29ED 8365 AF0B The views expressed herein are solely those of the author and not those of SURA/Jefferson Lab or the US DOE. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Computer Forensics Training at the InfoSec Institute. All of our class sizes are guaranteed to be 12 students or less to facilitate one-on-one interaction with one of our expert instructors. Gain the in-demand skills of a certified computer examiner, learn to recover trace data left behind by fraud, theft, and cybercrime perpetrators. Discover the source of computer crime and abuse so that it never happens again. http://www.infosecinstitute.com/courses/computer_forensics_training.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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