15 Jun
2009
15 Jun
'09
10:13 a.m.
because it doesn't work.
most systems don't accept spaces.
and if we're talking windows, a password like that might only take a few minutes to
crack.
run a regular alpha-only pass with 0phcrack,
it'll show the characters as it's cracking, so the words will show up,
the spaces and punctuation would show as "?" but easy to guess.
once you have the encrypted password, cracking it is easy.
actually i'm not even sure if windows allows spaces in passwords either.
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 09:04:38 -0700
From: geneb at deltasoft.com
To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: password expiration policy (was Re: UNIX V7)
On Mon, 15 Jun 2009, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
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Gene Buckle wrote:
Yes, but spaces count as "non-alphabetic characters". So, they would meet
the rules anyway.
I wonder why more people don't advocate for that. Remembering something
like "Molly slings the booze." would be a damn sight easier than
"1dGhs!z2".
g.
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IBM's official rules for internal passwords.
For the systems that don't have short password fields, would'nt pass
phrases be more secure?