How secure is your password?

How secure is your password?

Some ideas. Passwords versus Passphrases.

Some links for your consideration.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pass_phrase

http://www.google.com/search?as_q=p...as_dt=i&as_sitesearch=&as_rights=&safe=images

http://world.std.com/~reinhold/diceware.html

http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2...place_windows_passwords_with_passphrases.html

 

There are website you can go to that will show you the password you typed and will rate how strong it is. I'll see if I can find one, but I recommend anyone interested in security of their passwords to use one.

 

Passphrases are much safer than passwords, but make sure you can remember them.
For example (about a cricketer).

Adam Gilchrist is the best cricketer in the World in my opinion2007

Using the first letter of each word it becomes (and easy for me to remember as Ol' Bigears is the best, IMO.)

AGitbcitWimo2007

Bazza

PS: This ain't mine, just an example. Baz

 

WtcaagEci2007

(Well there certainly aren't any good English cricketers in 2007).

 

bbWCi2007
bye bye World Cup in 2007 :major Bazza

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AWtstRWC

(Ah Well there's still the Rugby World Cup) LOL

 

WBsTN
(We Better stop This Now). Bazza

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JWICOAWEM!

(Just when I'd caught on and was enjoying myself!)

 

I would have thought that one of the ways to maintain the security of your passwords, is to only type them in where they are required

 

Yeah, I'm not too keen on giving an unknown site one of my more precious and potentially expensive possesions.

 

It's AJAX, I'll see if I can find it. I know there's a lot of plugins for phpBB and vBulletin, etc that will do it on the fly. As you type your password and add characters it gives you a password strength score. You're not submitting the information.

 

when you sign up to ebay it gives you a password strength meter as well, have seen it on other sites too

 

Google links to "password strength meter" for anyone interested.

http://www.google.com/search?as_q=&...as_dt=i&as_sitesearch=&as_rights=&safe=images

Bazza