Comment on YSK The World’s Most Common Passwords

psx_crab@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  From my experience brute forcing passwords, no. It’s smart enough to try character substitutions and it annoys me so much that the FBI recommends this practice.

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  • psx_crab@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Wait it’s not? I remember some people in the industry recommend this sort of password albeit with variation of other random words as it’s pretty strong and would take a very long time to crack.

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    • locuester@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Indeed, just four impersonal words is a great password. Mix up the capitalization and it’s even better.

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    • undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If it’s a bunch of words found in any dictionary then with or without character substitution it’ll be easy to crack.

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      • itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It’s not. A dictionary has on the order of ≈100,000 (10^5) words in it. Picking five words entirely at random gives you 10^25 combinations, which is about the complexity of 14 alphanumeric characters. So pretty secure.

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• JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I just see *******************

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  • psx_crab@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Need your credit card number and the 3 digit number at the back of the card to see what i typed.

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• itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That’s okay at best. Better if a passphrase, just random, impersonal words, something like this (~50 bits of entropy):

  “virtual raging vineyard clad runner”

  Best is a long, completely random string, stored in the password manager that you should be using anyways ~150 bits of entropy):

  “hX0hZ1QTWtQo(h[Ta9jH]TmsVIhUTgSE”

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  • psx_crab@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I did use a password manager, but issue is i still need password for the password manager so it can’t be random lol.

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