Re:Ken Thompson's Unix Password
by austincheney on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @01:42PM
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A better pattern is something long that will exceed the bounds of a rainbow table.
The example is 67 characters long written in a statement that is easy to remember with two non-alpha characters aside from the spaces. Imagine the size of rainbow table it would take to crack that.
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I'm not sure how easy that is to remember... Was it 'really love but wish' or 'love but really wish'? etc.
Re:Ken Thompson's Unix Password
by austincheney on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @03:01PM
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I suspect you would word your password in a way that is most familiar for you. The idea is to achieve both cognitive comfort while destroying brute force efforts. A better example:
Antidisestablishmentarianism is the longest English word I can think of##
Re:Ken Thompson's Unix Password
by saalweachter on Friday October 11, 2019 @10:43AM
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I think you'd have more fun trying to imagine phrases no one would ever say.
"But thankfully I took Kim Kardashian's advice, and everything worked out for the best."
I enter my password so many times each day (every time I step away from my computer and then come back to it, for example), so having such a long password would be quite the annoyance. Plus it's easy to make a typo and not realize it in a long sentence when you can't see what you're typing.