Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 8:54 am
I use patterns such as 0okmnji9 so I only need to remember the first letter 
Alex
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FYI, on many systems, the numbers have to be entered on the number pad area of your keyboard, not on the numbers at the top of QWERTY.onion2k wrote:Hold down ALT and enter the character number. For example, to enter a Yen symbol hold ALT and enter 157 ... ¥
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***************You stole my password! How the heck did you guess it so easily?Everah wrote:FYI, on many systems, the numbers have to be entered on the number pad area of your keyboard, not on the numbers at the top of QWERTY.
As for me, all this talk about passwords has helped me forget about 97% of them, so I am changing all of my passwords to:Code: Select all
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Bah, lamer! This one is WAY MORE secure than yours: ****************As for me, all this talk about passwords has helped me forget about 97% of them, so I am changing all of my passwords to: Code:
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That's bad. They are not as random or as unpredictable as you may think. In fact, human beings are EXTREMELY BAD random number generators (http://scienceblogs.com/cognitivedaily/ ... number.php), almost worse than the one in onion2k's sig (http://xkcd.com/c221.html)alex wrote:I use patterns such as 0okmnji9 so I only need to remember the first letter
Ok guruMordred wrote:Bah, lamer! This one is WAY MORE secure than yours: ****************As for me, all this talk about passwords has helped me forget about 97% of them, so I am changing all of my passwords to: Code:
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That's bad. They are not as random or as unpredictable as you may think. In fact, human beings are EXTREMELY BAD random number generators (http://scienceblogs.com/cognitivedaily/ ... number.php), almost worse than the one in onion2k's sig (http://xkcd.com/c221.html)alex wrote:I use patterns such as 0okmnji9 so I only need to remember the first letter
It is trivial (as I have indeed done) to make a generator for these types of passwords, I can almost give you a credible statistic on how often people choose one of these. I suggest you use another method for generating random passwords - maybe using a computer random generator with good entropy.
I'll let Mordred do his calculations. In the meantime I'm wondering how in earth I'm going to remember this one let alone type this quickly, without spelling errors, in each password form I encounter ....Hockey wrote:7aad5d40ded8605244759ccf7bd99c42
Ready. Set. Go!
You will notice that I said I have written a generator (and checker) for these types of passwords, not that I can crack the MD5 of any given one. I will nevertheless have a go at it, but first I'll need to do some metrics before I get back to you. Watch this spaceHockey wrote:Put the proof in the pudding. I've an organized sequence of characters which means something to me on this site. Here is the MD5 hash even: 7aad5d40ded8605244759ccf7bd99c42
It's not even a random generated value, but quite the opposite.
Ready. Set. Go!
I use patterns such as 0okmnji9 so I only need to remember the first letter
Type it.The Ninja Space Goat wrote:I use patterns such as 0okmnji9 so I only need to remember the first letter
I don't get it