How secure is your password?

my paypal and hyperwallet ones have letters numbers and symbols

my email ones are letter/numbers. in random order.

i've found that a lot of porn site subscribers use bad passwords

I always use 1234.

I figure, it's too easy for anyone to guess.

A cryptologist at the NSA engineers my passwords. I feel rather secure.

Originally posted by SoftWareRevue
I always use 1234.

I figure, it's too easy for anyone to guess.

Someone actually caught me using that one :( Now I just use plain password

:rofl:

It's all about the alpha-numeric combinations.

Originally posted by WoodShedd


i've found that a lot of porn site subscribers use bad passwords


quite interesting...;)

Somebody stole a forum account of mine because my password was my name :(

I always set my passwords to different languages, for instance; Gaelic, French, Spanish and German.

Is this a plot to guess our passwords? :D
My webhostingtalk password is just mainly numbers. I won't tell you how many numbers or how random these numbers are. My other passwords are a combination of letters and numbers. My most securest password is 40+ letters and characters combined.

Originally posted by Rochen
A cryptologist at the NSA engineers my passwords. I feel rather secure.

Are you serious? Think you could hook us up? :D

Almost all of my passwords are completely random, containing numbers, letters, and punctuation. I don't have a password less than 10 characters, except in places that require it to be shorter.

most of my passwords are a mix of numbers, letters, and symbols. i use about 3 different ones for most things.

J.

How do you guys remember strings like that????

Mine is 2 words together,or my birthdate followed by a word.......

I couldnt ever remember those!!!!!! (w/o writing them down that is)

The Dude :)

one i remember because it's a word just spelled out with numbers letters and a symbol inbetween. one is a dictionary word with 2 numbers, but i use it for forum accounts - meaningless stuff. another i use i got from work because of some maintenance that i do...it was a good password and since i do the maintenance regularly, i just memorized it. i like when technological intellectuals create passwords for me because I hate trying to think up my own...and usually I can memorize something that someone else creates for me faster than one of my own. I'm weird...

J.

All mine are ********** or ******* or **************. I need to be more creative :blush:

I tend to take a completely random, meaningless word, leet-ify and/or misspell it, and use it. One's very clearly based on a dictionary word, and Linux tends to reject it. (But on the boxes I own, I just become root and set it... Very secure indeed. ;)) I have another one that's not based on a dictionary word that I use where my password's rejected. The problem is that two passwords and multiple usernames tends to make it all but impossible to remember which is the correct combination.

My root passwords tend to be 10+ characters long and a bit more 'secure,' but they're a pain to type, so I tend to use sudo ;)

Complete randomness is quite theoretical I think. So having a random password is quite difficult. Using extended ascii characters helps a lot where it is allowed :)

Roland: One.
Dark Helmet: One.
Sandurz: One.
Roland: Two.
Dark Helmet: Two.
Sandurz: Two.
Roland: Three.
Dark Helmet: Three.
Sandurz: Three.
Roland: Four.
Dark Helmet: Four.
Sandurz: Four.
Roland: Five.
Dark Helmet: Five.
Sandurz: Five.

Dark Helmet: So the combination is one, two, three, four, five? That's the stupidest combination I've ever heard! That's the kind of combination an idiot would put on his luggage!

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President Skroob: .... 1,2,3,4,5. That's amazing I've got the same combination on my luggage.

Needless to say, I use that password everywhere! :D

Originally posted by The Dude_
How do you guys remember strings like that????

Mine is 2 words together,or my birthdate followed by a word.......

I couldnt ever remember those!!!!!! (w/o writing them down that is)

The Dude :)

It took me 5 minutes to remember my 40+ secured password. The first 3 numbers of it as a matter of fact is 217. Its impossible for someone to get it because the numbers are random just like the letters in it. I bet it would take a person from the government years to crack it.

http://www.hiyacorp.com/passwords.php

Simple Script. Randomly generates a password.

<?
function makeRandomPassword() {
$salt = "acjhefsghkmunpxqrtvbwyz0182356479";
srand((double)microtime()*1000000);
$i = 0;
while ($i <= 8) {
$num = rand() % 33;
$tmp = substr($salt, $num, 1);
$pass = $pass . $tmp;
$i++;
}
return $pass;
}
$random_password = makeRandomPassword();
echo "Random Password is $random_password";
?>

Just before I leave a job, I change my password to "iquit", or "blowme"

For other passwords, I generally have a computer think of one for me, then I store these in my ipaq.

My passwords are usually a random combination of letters and numbers that mean something to me but would most likely mean nothing to anyone else even if found, yet simple enough for my fried brain to remember.
I use different ones for different accounts based on the level of security required. High security accounts may change regularly, while least important passwords such as forums, and other stuff that holds a lower level of priority may remain the same for ease of access and less risk of vaporizing any of the few brain cells I may have left to try to remember another password...

Just like SoftWareRevue, I also use the password "1234".

I use it everywhere for everything and it's very secure.

But sometimes i'll spruce it up by using "4321" to make it even more secure.

Originally posted by SoftWareRevue
I always use 1234.

I figure, it's too easy for anyone to guess.


Really? lol :P

My password is just the mirror of my login. Very easy to remember.

Wanna test your strength??


http://www.securitystats.com/tools/password.php

not sure how accurate it is, but its kinda cool none the less.

My usual forums password is 2-word.
My favorite forums and personal emails is 8 char, alpha numeric and symbols.
My server password is 20 char, random alpha numeric and symbols..
My car's password.. never mind, my car doesn't need a password...

ML

It's the weirdest thing... no matter what password I choose, it always shows up as *******


:spiny: :spiny:

Originally posted by SoftWareRevue
I always use 1234.

I figure, it's too easy for anyone to guess.

<-- tries to login as SWR

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Liar!

:D

-David

Originally posted by MikeM
Wanna test your strength??


http://www.securitystats.com/tools/password.php

not sure how accurate it is, but its kinda cool none the less.

Not accurate at all.

Congratulations! You've supplied a sample password that is difficult to guess and hard to crack. It is recommended that you use passwords of this type.

I used... *AbC123*

hehe, it said Password was a relitivly good password. I think I will go change all my root passwords to password. :eek: