Re:The longer passwords in the Last.fm database
by kazinator on Thursday September 08, 2016 @09:12AM
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Disturbingly, many do not, like the very first and longest one.
Of course, that one was gotten because it's simply the title of a song, mapped to lower case with spaces removed.
Password phrases, even if long sentences, must not be something pulled from popular culture.
I wouldn't expect, say, "thequickbrownfoxjumpedoverthelazydogs" to hold up.
I bet you that it woudn't have been cracked, had the user had changed a few words in a way that is easy to memorize. I would have changed "stripper is crying" to "stripper is dichloromethane". (Compound used as powerful paint stripper.)
Of course, that one was gotten because it's simply the title of a song, mapped to lower case with spaces removed.
Password phrases, even if long sentences, must not be something pulled from popular culture.
I wouldn't expect, say, "thequickbrownfoxjumpedoverthelazydogs" to hold up.
I bet you that it woudn't have been cracked, had the user had changed a few words in a way that is easy to memorize. I would have changed "stripper is crying" to "stripper is dichloromethane". (Compound used as powerful paint stripper.)