Arvee Posted May 30, 2006 Share Posted May 30, 2006 Can anyone give me an example of a good password, 'cause right now I know that the ones that I use are lame... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted May 30, 2006 Share Posted May 30, 2006 jkvv45fy7tn5iv76 Thats a good password Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Employee Posted May 30, 2006 Share Posted May 30, 2006 have more than 6 characters and have numbers and letters Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sentinel Posted May 30, 2006 Share Posted May 30, 2006 No words you'd find in a dictionary, and no names. More than 6 or 8 characters of mixed upper- and lower-case letters, as well as numbers (and other printable characters if possible). You can get essentially perfect passwords generated from www.grc.com/pass You can find out more about it by listening to Security Now - specifically episodes 4 and 5, but all of them are great and many others touch on the subject. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted May 30, 2006 Share Posted May 30, 2006 Use the £ symbol... I've read something on CNET that says since most keybreakers are written by americans, or targeted at americans, using symbols that don't appear in standard american english makes it harder to crack. Not sure how much money i'd risk on that though... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted May 30, 2006 Share Posted May 30, 2006 Use the £ symbol... I've read something on CNET that says since most keybreakers are written by americans, or targeted at americans, using symbols that don't appear in standard american english makes it harder to crack. Not sure how much money i'd risk on that though... Try it VaKo, set your acounts password to £ and see how long it takes to crack ^^ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Employee Posted May 30, 2006 Share Posted May 30, 2006 Use the £ symbol... I've read something on CNET that says since most keybreakers are written by americans, or targeted at americans, using symbols that don't appear in standard american english makes it harder to crack. Not sure how much money i'd risk on that though... Try it VaKo, set your acounts password to and see how long it takes to crack ^^ Hahaha than we come back to this thread 7 years later.... "Hey guys, well the cracking was unsuccessful. So put a £ in and you won't be cracked!" I would really laugh if something happend like this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted May 30, 2006 Share Posted May 30, 2006 Use the £ symbol... I've read something on CNET that says since most keybreakers are written by americans, or targeted at americans, using symbols that don't appear in standard american english makes it harder to crack. Not sure how much money i'd risk on that though... Try it VaKo, set your acounts password to £ and see how long it takes to crack ^^ I can't at the moment, using 3 computers to render and the other ones a linux machine (btw how do you crack an ubuntu password with physical access to the machine, i've forgotten the login). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jigga-Zula Posted May 30, 2006 Share Posted May 30, 2006 Is it possible to type the symbol, "£", on an American keyboard? Does it take some weird alt combo? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arvee Posted May 30, 2006 Author Share Posted May 30, 2006 Thanks... I'll probably just try to remember one of those strings: Maybe like 6-10 Characters. The reason I asked this was: When I saw the show I saw them punch in some long passwords and stuff. Thanks again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VilleValoV Posted May 30, 2006 Share Posted May 30, 2006 GOOGLE IS YOUR FRIEND £= ALT+0163 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sentinel Posted May 30, 2006 Share Posted May 30, 2006 £= ALT+0163Make sure to use the numpad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooper Posted May 30, 2006 Share Posted May 30, 2006 btw how do you crack an ubuntu password with physical access to the machine, i've forgotten the login. Boot off of a CD or something OTHER than the harddisk. Mount the filesystem that has /etc on it. Edit /etc/shadow (of /etc/passwd if you're still living in the dark ages) and edit out the contents of the password column for the user you forgot. Reboot and log in as that user, who now has an empty password. Alternatively, instead of blanking it, you can enter the character sequence from one of the other accounts whose password you do remember. Reboot and log in using that password for this account. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darren Kitchen Posted May 30, 2006 Share Posted May 30, 2006 I use a 21 character password on my workstation and a 44 character password on my server. As others have said you want something random, not in a dictionary, and use lower case, upper case, symbols, and numbers. And don't just replace e for 3 since many cracking programs are smart enough to try that. Also keep your password 15 characters or more since that will prevent it from being stored in the easy to crack LM hash on windows. This is an example of a good password: 76bnGHtg-=¥ƒ1AWm,0*z~ It's not hard to type once you have to do it 10 times a day. If that seems like too much work then it might be time to start thinking about passphrases. For example, this is an easy to remember and very secure password: "My first PC was an IBM PC-XT that cost $2500" Lowercase, check Uppercase, check Numbers, check Symbols, check 15+ chars, check Easy to remember? Well, if you paid $2500 for an IBM PC-XT back in the day, then yes. Darren Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooper Posted May 30, 2006 Share Posted May 30, 2006 I use a 21 character password on my workstation and a 44 character password on my server. Note that not all systems react well to such long passwords, and some actually chop them off when they're deemed too long. Here at work I tried to use a 17-character password and only half the systems updated to the new one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
programertobe Posted May 31, 2006 Share Posted May 31, 2006 really, if you use a password that has a special character or two that uses the alt key, then you should be fine eg: ¶à §§?Ô?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harrison Posted May 31, 2006 Share Posted May 31, 2006 I prefer to use words that are easy to remember. Like my first name, or my dogs name. Even better is my favorite movie, or my mom's maiden name. Examples of good passwords: 12345 password harrison isabella five smile dictionary Try those out and see how they work for you :) Make sure you set your passphrase to never expire Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metatron Posted May 31, 2006 Share Posted May 31, 2006 I have a good memory so for any thing important I would use something like T2h598jM8ks5h4 and for the things that I’m not bothered about I use the first thing that pops into my head some thing like fuck666billgates. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melodic Posted May 31, 2006 Share Posted May 31, 2006 I have a good memory so for any thing important I would use something like T2h598jM8ks5h4 and for the things that I’m not bothered about I use the first thing that pops into my head some thing like fuck666billgates. hehehehe you big kid :roll: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted May 31, 2006 Share Posted May 31, 2006 Metatron is to computers as Jeremy Clarkson is to cars :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anyedie Posted May 31, 2006 Share Posted May 31, 2006 personally i use ubr 1337 ( lol ) for passwords like j0//ny sc00bi3DOO/elm@ those are easy to remember and if you throw a few special characters in it will take a LOT longer to crack. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooper Posted May 31, 2006 Share Posted May 31, 2006 For very important stuff (bank passwords, root accounts, etc) there are character sequences that would appear random to the layperson, but actually relate to stuff that's etched in my brain. One example was the license plate of a car my dad used to own combined with characters of the name of a street I used to live in as indexed by part of a phone number I used to have. For stuff I don't want just anybody to have access to (local machine passwords) I tend to pick words on stuff I'm familiar with but will get an empty stare when you say them to people (obscure comic book characters, members of bands nobody knows about, characters or titles of B-movies practically nobody's seen) and apply a little leetspeek where needed. And then the stuff for which I'm forced to pick a password but don't really care about, like online shop sites (like I give a shit that people can see what I bought), there's a couple of names and titles that I reuse. I wonder how many of you change their passwords on a regular basis...? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melodic Posted May 31, 2006 Share Posted May 31, 2006 i change my password when my little shit brother uses some script kiddy app on me. locally. he gets me wen i go for a piss :twisted: bastard. ne way my pass is only 3 char long atm for my windows box. i cant b arsed with it lol. i did crack his sam files earlier with saminside cos i wanted on his pc to play music :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metatron Posted May 31, 2006 Share Posted May 31, 2006 My ThinkPad has biometrics and I have a similar system for my home and work desktop's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melodic Posted May 31, 2006 Share Posted May 31, 2006 i wanna get into biometrics, like RFID tags. i wanna b taged :D you can get a home kit for like £70 or something cant you? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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