[Cryptography] Today's XKCD is on password strength.

Steve Furlong demonfighter at gmail.com
Wed Aug 10 10:22:46 EDT 2011


On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 10:12 AM, Perry E. Metzger <perry at 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"?

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Neca eos omnes. Deus suos agnoscet. -- Arnaud-Amaury, 1209


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