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Bear Bibeault wrote:Guess which one I'll be changing?
Steve
There are only two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors
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You don't, so don't enter your real password, enter a password with comparable complexity.Martin Vajsar wrote:How do we know the site doesn't build some neat password database?
Steve
Steve Luke wrote:
You don't, so don't enter your real password, enter a password with comparable complexity.Martin Vajsar wrote:How do we know the site doesn't build some neat password database?
Steve
Steve Luke wrote:but you still have to link them to usernames for them to be useful.
There are only two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors
fred rosenberger wrote:
minimum of 8 characters, with one or more symbols, and a mixture of upper and lower case, change every 3 months
or
minimum of 15 characters, change once a year
Arun Giridhar wrote:It would take a desktop PC about 2 seconds to crack your password
Martin Vajsar wrote:
Arun Giridhar wrote:It would take a desktop PC about 2 seconds to crack your password
I'm a bit skeptical about the "time it would take to crack the password".
Martin Vajsar wrote: However, time to determine whether the generated passwords match the real one is not considered. I really don't know how that is usually done, but I'm pretty sure it doesn't take zero time.
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