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Choosing a Secure password.

It’s very important, when you are choosing an important password, to choose it well, always mix letters ( lower AND upper ), numbers and characters…

A weak password can be guessed via dictionary attack, like `home` or `computer` etc… a strong password however is much harder to guess via dictionary attack, ex: ]RmXpEB=1& or rl*~V3nM”S

I agree that random passwords are very hard to remember, but it’s better safe than sorry right ? Anyway you might think I thought of that password, well guess again :) To generate a random, yet powerful, password I use apg it’s a small program that generates passwords, you can request both pronounceable and random passwords.. here some examples: Generate an 8 to 10 chars long, pronounceable passwords

$ apg -a 0 -m 8 -x 10 Dabfiecaf cebfaysHey hivjebDoj Kaneisht2 FiwauHyk NiwryinkEp 

Generate 15, 5 to 10 chars long, random passwords

$ apg -a 1 -m 5 -x 10 -n 15 y=/y}Ue U^hV;DX Y|'q@PWU} Iz?J[M\{: z0)g(3?bR[ W3'(PQ}8. /]eb:]VkU num)bQ |q&Z6:)d5 I()jhl?I 0'[Pc1"<4 e1,`L" WAU\

Password Strength To check the strengh of your password, you can use Password checker by Microsoft.com or this small Java program Good Luck :D

25 September 2010 ·

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