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Old 02-18-2008, 06:54 AM
Kristian Gjøsteen
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Default Re: Please rip apart a Noob's pathetic attempts...

<invalid@example.com> wrote:
>My purpose is to have hard-to-guess and unique passwords on
>all of the different systems in life that ask for passwords.


For each site, choose a random password (your system has a random number
generator, use it). Save these in an encrypted file. Done.

>Here is my plan: I propose going to these webpages to get
>somewhat randomish data:


This "randomish data" is more predictable for an attacker than the output
of your system's random number generator.

>BTW. is there a formula that lets me plug in the length and
>the number of possible characters and tells me how big a brute
>force search would be?


n^k.

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