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Re: [Cryptography] Today's XKCD is on password strength.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Furlong)
Wed Aug 10 10:27:33 2011
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Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 10:22:46 -0400
From: Steve Furlong <demonfighter@gmail.com>
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On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 10:12 AM, Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com> wrote:
> Today's XKCD is on password strength. The advice it gives is pretty
> good in principle...
>
> http://xkcd.com/936/
For a single password on a system with flexible rules, it's good advice.
Real world, with a dozen non-reused passwords needed on systems with
limited password lengths, not so much. "correct stable horse battery"?
--
Neca eos omnes. Deus suos agnoscet. -- Arnaud-Amaury, 1209
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