How good is your password-fu?

Post » Wed Nov 06, 2013 1:12 am

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-05/28/password-cracking/viewall

It's probably not a good idea to use pop culture-, gaming- or internet-related passwords on a site like this, so you may want to change your password. "theansweris42" and "arrowtotheknee", for example, aren't a good idea.

Here's the tl;dr for the lazy/busy/tired:

I'd make it more than 11 characters long. A few extra characters more than 11 aren't going to tax your brain and fingers all that much ... The Bethesda forums allow 26 ... :angel:

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Post » Wed Nov 06, 2013 3:36 am

lol MD5.

And this is why people should use a password generator like http://keepass.info/.
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