Changes between Version 4 and Version 5 of Public/Docs/SafePasswords


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Mar 29, 2019, 8:09:27 AM (6 years ago)
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Boris Horner
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    1818This is based on two assumptions:
    1919* People tend to re-use passwords across many sites to avoid remembering many of them.
    20 * Some people choose so-calles //passphrases// as passwords, that means, they choose passwords like "Flew in from Miami Beach BOAC" (which is the first line of the Beatles song //Back in the U.S.S.R.//). This seems valid at first, because the password is complex, safe against conventional dictionary attacks and can be memorized easily.
     20* Some people choose so-called //passphrases// as passwords, that means, they choose passwords like "Flew in from Miami Beach BOAC" (which is the first line of the Beatles song //Back in the U.S.S.R.//). This seems valid at first, because the password is complex, safe against conventional dictionary attacks and can be memorized easily.
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    2222Alas, this password is surely among the passwords in the common password hacking databases.