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Passwords produced are only ten or eleven characters long - pretty good, but they could be longer. Edit: A recent Ars Technica article[1] suggests an 11-charac
by pronoiac 13y ago
Passwords produced are only ten or eleven characters long - pretty good, but they could be longer.
Edit: A recent Ars Technica article[1] suggests an 11-character minimum. Ending with 0 or ! like this doesn't really add a whole character to the search space.
[1] http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/05/how-crackers-make-minced-meat-out-of-your-passwords/3/ http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/05/how-crackers-make-mi...
- gtrubetskoy 13y agoSo make it 11? A SHA-512 in Base-64 encoding is 42 characters long, use all of them if you'd like. Chain them, and get infinite length passwords. My post is a just a demonstration of the technique which requires no disk storage or network transfer :)