Dictionary Attacks 101

Re:Dictionary Attacks 101 by meep on Thursday January 08, 2009 @09:21AM (#424907)

I've found 1Password (http://agilewebsolutions.com/products/1Password) to be a great solution to this. It automatically generates passwords for you and saves logins on an encrypted file. The only problem I've found with it is that when you go to use a friend's computer or a public computer you don't always know your passwords. A web service version of it would be convenient, but the security implications are obvious..

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Re:Dictionary Attacks 101 by timf on Thursday January 08, 2009 @11:06AM (#425067)

For the sake of a working solution I also just store passwords in encrypted files (using encfs, though) and stop worrying about accessing everything from my non-main computers.

Script for new passwords follows, for the fun of it. I have stuff added afterwards to save the username, website, and password to encrypted files.

  #!/usr/bin/env python
  import string
  from random import Random
  okchars = string.letters + string.digits + "!@%^_&*+-"
  print ''.join( Random().sample(okchars, 40) )

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Re:Dictionary Attacks 101 by there on Thursday January 08, 2009 @10:28AM (#424998)

something like http://www.angel.net/~nic/passwd.html (placed on your own server, behind ssl, of course)

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