I just love the password generator http://keepass.info/screenshots/pwgen_big.png in Keypass. You can easily get a password that is strong enough (in bits please, NOT in number of symbols) to remain secure over your entire life time… I know, you won't be able to remember it (of course, I don't), but you can always save it in an encrypted Keypass database. For portability, copy that database to your memory stick. Lose you memory stick (I did)? No problem, since the database is safeguarded under AES 256 bit. AES might not stay safe for a long time to come though, see the recent: http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1713127 /Sari On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 12:11 AM, jeremy hunsinger <jhuns@vt.edu> wrote:
forwarding on some sites that may aid you in keeping your stuff more secure. there was just a mass release of 32million passwords from a major site, and people were asking on our local lists, so here's what our senior security expert provided. I'm sharing it.
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From: randy marchany <marchany@vt.edu>
http://www.dragonresearchgroup.org/insight/sshpwauth-cloud.html
http://www.whatsmypass.com/the-top-500-worst-passwords-of-all-time
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/imperva-rockyou-most-common-passwords,9486....
http://www.wiredfu.com/2010/01/most-popular-passwords/
In addition, you can google for "most popular passwords" or "most common
passwords". Even Twitter bans "obvious" passwords from being used. :-)
Let me know if you have any questions or find any other good password
list sites.
-r.
Jeremy Hunsinger Center for Digital Discourse and Culture Virginia Tech
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