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Old 09-04-2012, 09:55 PM   #9
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Thumbs up Re: PASSWORD MANAGERS, anyone use them? Ideas? FREE ones or pay?

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Originally Posted by mjp28 View Post
Long gone are the pet names, common numbers, we're going real big, all 12+ and M1xEd $tuff.
Since you mentioned leet-speak...
Keep in mind that most of that leet-speak mixed character **** is already in the cracker libraries too right alongside the real words they sub for so you still need to mix it up.

Steve Gibson has a really interesting read on password entropy on this page. http://www.grc.com/haystack.htm
About halfway down is a podcast of the Security Now! episode where he covered it in detail.
A definite must-read and must-listen if you're security conscious. It might surprise you.
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