Comments on: What Makes a Good Password?

By: Rea Maor

Rea Maor — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 05:58:45 +0000

Naturally, the longer the password is the harder it is to crack it down – in the end it’s nearly impossible to be Hack / Crack proof as picking out a strong password is only a small part of what we call “Security” but must definitely it’s the First & Must important step.

By: webjourneyman

webjourneyman — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 22:59:38 +0000

Of course one should start with a good long password before scrambling it. Like a sentance from a poem/song/book/movie, Good 10-15 letters at least.

Turn that into some version of leetspeak, with special rules, like only replace the “e”, “a” and “s” (3,4,5) or only doing it to every other word in the sencence or every third.

Should be pretty tough to crack?

By: Rea Maor

Rea Maor — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 06:54:28 +0000

Thats where we disccuse about algorithms, which will be a whole other article.

By: Thor

Thor — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 21:48:41 +0000

In regards to good passwords I´ve recently stared using leetspeak (read: elite speak), change every letter that has a similarity to any numerical symbol to just that. Like Tom Sawyer becomes, T0m 54wy3r. Of course be careful to make your special rules like not changing every 3rd letter from latin to numeral or something.