TetsuoShima Posted December 6, 2006 Share Posted December 6, 2006 Not sure if this modern science or not, but I just read an interesting piece on the 7z (compression package) site. Appearently brute force AES cracking by an organisation with enough resources ($1 billion), is so advanced and specialised that any password shorter than 6 characters can be broken in about 1s... To be secure against a brute force attack, from a specialised organisation, for more than 1 hour, you'd need a password longer than 8 characters, more than a month would be 11 characters (those are random printable ASCII characters btw). This is about brute force AES cracking, so it's high quality encryption... I guess it's time to upgrade passwords if you don't want people nosing in your affairs... (11 chars should be good for all average Joes, since I doubt any big organisation would spend over a month to crack a message from a regular person) In contrast, the average home-computer today, would need nearly a year to crack an AES 6 char password. Oh, and another remark, these are maximum time periods, its easily possible that the password would be guessed in half the mentioned time (or even less still)... Ah well, luckily I don't have any information that could be worth a lot to big corps to hide... (I wish I did, maybe I could sell it and make a fortune, LOL) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Megalith Posted December 6, 2006 Share Posted December 6, 2006 better still to change passwords on a monthly basis although you may change to one that hasnt been attempted by the algorithm at least if they come back they will need to start again. having said that most people use the same password for everything they do and use lowercase letters and a word found in a dictionary lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GorunNova Posted December 6, 2006 Share Posted December 6, 2006 Heh... no worries for me, then. My passwords for important stuff tend to be 12 character alphanumeric mixed case slime. Sure, I've got them written down... but in a cypher I made up when I was a kid. Paranoid? Maybe... but I doubt I have much to worry about security. ^^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TFMF Posted December 6, 2006 Share Posted December 6, 2006 Heh... no worries for me' date=' then. My passwords for important stuff tend to be 12 character alphanumeric mixed case slime. Sure, I've got them written down... but in a cypher I made up when I was a kid. Paranoid? Maybe... but I doubt I have much to worry about security. ^^[/quote'] Most of my passwords for sites i don't really care about tend to be very weak indeed. My password on here was recently upgraded to > 12 characters. I can be quite careless with passwords most of the time - really need to go around and upgrade my passwords to be more secure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Megalith Posted December 6, 2006 Share Posted December 6, 2006 lol if it matters i use a system based on several things but i dont have much im protective of that much. i used to use a pretty random one when i worked for aerospace that used a system of patterns drawn on the keypad that i had to update from month to month :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hilander72 Posted December 7, 2006 Share Posted December 7, 2006 I use several passwords depending on what its used for (from 6 lowercase/numbers to 13 lowercase/uppercase/numbers). nitescifi = currently 10 low/up/no Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bones2097 Posted December 8, 2006 Share Posted December 8, 2006 ahh simple sol..... just have a pc not connected to the net lol... i doubt a co, will buy the house next door, setup their rig & then drill a hole in the wall to accesss your serial port without you noticing.... lol! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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