Passwords

[Barrucadu]

How long is everyone's password? My passwords are usually 8+ mixed characters, however I just changed the root password on both my computers to a 32 character alphanumeric password (it is an MD5 hash).

 

[Ross]

Depends where the password is at. At work we have to have an Alpha Numeric Case sensitive password above 25 characters (HP). At home and other websites usually 8-16 characters works for me.

 

[RegFee]

One service I use recently required all of its users to change our passwords, and had one of those real-time "how secure is it" scripts running as you typed. I ended up using numbers, non-alphabet characters, misspellings, the works, just to get the darn thing to say "Super Secure". Roboform has a nice internal password generator that's nice to use, hopefully sxipper will implement that soon.

 

[archer7]

29 characters of seemingly-random numbers and symbols. I bought a magstripe reader off eBay for 99p ($2) and now I can just effortlessly swipe in an uncrackable password from some unimportant card in my wallet. It even sends an "enter" keystroke to it so I don't even need to hit OK.

Problem is that I can't use it for any important passwords - I keep losing the card.

 

[Peter]

My personal passwords tend to be randomly typed data of varying lengths.

Just a word of caution. Be sure not to give too muc information about password etc.

No point giving people clues on how to hack your websites or accounts.

 

[notlikeyou]

what you mean everyone does not use "password" as their password?

 

[weblord]

mine is varying all in excel files, 12 characters, alpha-numeric, caps and lower.

 

[Bill]

Mine is 1 character. :blink:

 

[Eric]

Mine is 1 character. :blink:

I would've thought yours was "BAN"

 

[Morph]

^
Starts in B and ends in N :p

Mine range from more sensitive sites being alpha numerical and quite long so sites which don't matter being alot easier

 

[Bill]

Mine is 1 character. :blink:

I would've thought yours was "BAN"

Why do you have to tell everyone? Thought it was a secret.

 

[Eric]

Why do you have to tell everyone? Thought it was a secret.

Oops

 

[deleted984054565403]

1234

Easy to remember.

 

[labrocca]

I have a slew of passwords I use. Some extremely complex...some simple. I also change my password on various sites regularly. I use the full spectrum of alphanumeric and even some characters '&' for example. I print out a password list so I don't forget it.

I can't stress enough how important it is not to use dictionary terms for a password especially ones whose length is 7 characters or less. Also don't use personal information like birthdays, pet names, or kids info. Just create something very random.

 

[htmlindex]

Mine range from 8 to 12 characters long & is a mix of numbers & letters. Can't make ot too easy for people to remember.

 

[holyroller]

One company I use to work for I ran a dictionary password scan. Which checked for people using password that where super easy to guess. 30% of people in the company used 'password' as there password. 10% used days, months, seasons as there password and about 20% used names.

In total only about 20% were even half secure.

The admin password they used when building the servers was PassworD (capital P and D) :lol: - It was supposed to be changed when it went live, but never was.

 

[Dotmainer]

does it make sense to have password longer than 8 chars ?
If i remember right some systems let you choose longer pass,
but take only first 8 chars for check.

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[bizwiz]

I make it a point to make all my important passwords at least 20 characters long

 

[dgridley]

I agree.. RoboForm is great!

Roboform has a nice internal password generator that's nice to use.

 

[Eric]

<?php

echo str_shuffle(substr(hash('whirlpool', '************'), 0, 16));

?>