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One that did catch my eye was 1qaz2wsx Take a look at your keyboard to see that one. While it has potential, it could be a little longer. It is still the stron
by svckr 11y ago
One that did catch my eye was 1qaz2wsx
Take a look at your keyboard to see that one. While it has potential, it could be a little longer. It is still the strongest one from the list though.
How so? It could be a 100-character string of seemingly random symbols; if it's at the top of the list, it's not a strong password.
- piyush_soni 11y agoIt might be a 'strong' password according to these stupid 'password enforcers' on websites which think they're smart enough to decide for us.
- logfromblammo 11y agoNot quite. That password would be "1qaz@WSX". You see, you need a number and a special character, a lowercase letter and an uppercase character.
- mort96 11y ago"Your 32 completely random characters doesn't contain enough special symbols, and is thus insecure."
- alwaysdoit 11y agoIt's not. It looks "randomish" to humans, but it's not actually any different from 12345678.
- dmichulke 11y agoif it's at the top of the list, it's not a strong password. An interesting point of view that makes the whole thing a game-theoretic problem - your choice is only good as long as not too many other people chose the same. An analogy might be that of a stock: A password (stock) is only worth 'acquiring' as long as not too many people have it. But I believe the difference is the quantity of passwords (money) chasing sites (stocks). A similar version of that might be a simultaneous multiplayer number guessing game where the player wins that guesses the smallest positive number no one else has guessed.