On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 8:27 PM, Pau Giner pginer@wikimedia.org wrote:
I think it would be better to encourage the use of passphrases instead: An interesting article about making usable and secure passwordshttp://www.baekdal.com/insights/password-security-usabilitysuggests that password based on sentences with 3 or more words such as *"this is fun"* are ten times more secure than cryptic combinations of numbers and letters such as *"J4fS<2" *(there is also a xkcd version of the same idea http://xkcd.com/936/).
An interesting approach is password haystack[1].
From the web site:
"Which of the following two passwords is stronger, more secure, and more difficult to crack?
D0g.....................
PrXyc.N(n4k77#L!eVdAfp9
You probably know this is a trick question, but the answer is: Despite the fact that the first password is HUGELY easier to use and more memorable, it is also the stronger of the two! In fact, since it is one character longer and contains uppercase, lowercase, a number and special characters, that first password would take an attacker approximately 95 times longer to find by searching than the second impossible-to-remember-or-type password!"
Željko -- 1: https://www.grc.com/haystack.htm