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Re: Advanced Password Security - WhatPassword
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o0o0
on 07/05/2018, 11:44:52 UTC
seems overly complex.

i heard at a security conference that in pure combination brute forcing a password that mixtures of upper lower etc do little to actually delay a break.

computers dont care whats in a password and the one factor that slows them down is length.

apparently the best password is a long one. as humans we are wired to remember phrases, pictures etc better than complex patterns so the password

iwenttothebeachwithmydogandthrewitastick

is quite a good one. no spaces so computers dont know where a word starts and stops. good luck dictionarying that. something to consider for you. id find remembering your generated passwords complex. people will write them down in a book or notepad file on their pc which defeats the security of it.

note that was in relation to complexity.

your system has pass valid for 1 minute. its overly complex for 1 minute. it could be simplier with brute force not possible in that time

What if the Bruteforce method use a database of words which it looks for within the password. So it dissect the password, by looking for words, even if there are no spaces in between? I like to replace letters with numbers, for example : P@$$w0rd43v3R {Password for ever}-- So there is no recognisable words in that password that can be extracted.

It is still readable by humans, but computers will have a hard time figuring that out.  Grin (And NO, I am not using that password, it was just an example)

what you say makes no sense...

it doesnt know your password or length. a brute force tries every character as 1..... then does every combo of 2 letters. if it knew my password was x characters how would it know where words stop and start it wouldnt. letters replaced with numbers dont trick computer brute forces... it tricks humans guessing.

COMPUTERS DONT have a hard time with numbers instead of letters. computers dont have brains, souls, reasoning. they do what we tell them to do.

test and t3st is no different to a computer. it will crack them both brute forcing in roughly the same time.