Comments on: Chained-word passwords https://dfarq.homeip.net/chained-word-passwords/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=chained-word-passwords David L. Farquhar on technology old and new, computer security, and more Thu, 24 May 2012 17:24:35 +0000 hourly 1 By: Flack https://dfarq.homeip.net/chained-word-passwords/#comment-16910 Thu, 24 May 2012 17:24:35 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=5519#comment-16910 What’s funny is that human beings and computers see things differently. To people, “pancake” and “pan cake” look very similar, but to a computer, they are very different. “pan cake” (with a space) is not in the dictionary. For the first you’re talking one in a million, wheres the second is one in a million times a million.

Take that and consider the password, “Mom sure loves pancakes!” At that point (assuming no sentence logic goes into the password guessing) and I assume (?) you are just as safe as you are with a (counting) 24 character randomly generated password.

When the song “Enter Sandman” from Metallica came out, I was using the password “Exit Light, Ent3r Night.” It far, far exceeded our minimum password requirements at the time. and was simple to remember.

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