Windows laggards still using the vulnerable hashing function: Your days are numbered.
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I use a password generator for daily stuff like most common logins. For something like a “master password” #or something really important, I use something really simple yet effective:
take a book you like, take the first phrase of it and change the first vowel of each word with the most similar number (i.e. A and 4). There, extremely secure password and easy to remember.
If you need a hint, use a word of the book title.
Now we can include this in rainbow tables
Isn’t it also significantly less secure than a randomly generated password?
Words are very easily translated into their l33t counterparts, and sentences make them even easier to guess programmatically.
So the length is good but everything else isn’t.
Who the hell has memorized the first lines of that many books
1t w4s th3 b3st 0f t1mes, 1t w4s th3 w0rst 0f t1mes.
Mr 4nd Mrs Dursl3y, 0f numb3r f0ur, Priv37 Driv3, w3r3 pr0ud 70 s4y 7h47 7h3y w3r3 p3rf3c7ly n0rm4l, 7h4nk y0u v3ry much.
You don’t need to memorize them. Imagine the book is, idk, The lord of the rings. Just set the password hint to “rings” and look it up online or in the physical book if you have it.
That’s quite a pain in the ass every time I need to type it in
Huh? You can just look it up online. I use Movie series titles like that, for the 90 day password change fuckery.
That’s quite a pain in the ass every time I need to type it in
It’s only when I forget it.
