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Yo jp,I went to change my password my new password i changed it to was 42 characters long
i entered it and it said password succesfully changed,however when i went to login it said my password was invalid but i knew it was right:(.so i shortened every letter down then finally it let me in. so basically the field where you change your password allows 42 characters, but the
place where you login the password only allows 39 characters:p.
please fix this soon
-Sh4d0wX
42 character password???? Are we paranoid?
Dear Lord man, its just a pass for a message board...not your login for a bank account, your work, etc
42 chars? If its as complex as it needs to be...how the hell do you remember it?
I know a guy whose email password was the first 3 lines of jingle bells. Took him like 5min and 3 tries just to check his email.
Jinglebellsjinglebells
Is just as easy to crack as: bells
It might just take 30-60 seconds longer
that is kinda funny though.
42 characters, thats nothing I once used a whole song (The Crystal Lake by Grandaddy) as a password, some idiot bet me he could crack my password withen three days with his "superfast" new computer. Needless to say he lost the bet :p
lol,well im not really paranoid but I dont like using passwords that are easy to remember so I
carry the passwords around with me on floppy or write them down,so if im carrying them on floppy and copying and pasting em,its prob safer to make em really long and hard to crack:D
- Sh4d0wX
Umm...what happens when you lose the floppy? How is this any different to just writing it down?Quote:
lol,well im not really paranoid but I dont like using passwords that are easy to remember so I
carry the passwords around with me on floppy or write them down,so if im carrying them on floppy and copying and pasting em,its prob safer to make em really long and hard to crack.
I wont lose the floppy:p,I share the computer with my brother,dont laugh but i write all my links down and put it in a plastic wallet with some floppys and carry it around with me:D.
Does anyone else her carry there links/floppys ect... around with them lmao:rolleyes:
lol cwk9,how did you know his password?,maybe that guy is you:p
umm shadowx. A password of c#3x7g@P that you remember is better then a 200 char. password carried on a disk as far a security purposes are concerned.....
The man speaks the truth.
The password is saved to your local drive anyway(encrypted), whether you 'remember' the password or put it on a floppy
Yeh i supose,but i always carry it around with me in my pocket so there is no breach of security:p.
-Sh4d0wX
To each their own.
Just don't want to see you coming back here in a week because you accidentally put your clothes in the wash(disk still inside) and ask how you can crack your own pass.
And believe me it can happen. I was stupid enough to wash my glasses, totally destroyed them.
Yo Tachyon, me and you posted a reply at the sametime:eek: lol.Anyway its easier for me to remember on a floppy because its a breach of security for you to have the same password for everything so i write my passwords on notes or carry them around on floppy with me but not letting them out of my pocket:D.
what do you have that ins really THAT important?? I mean i run a server and my root password isnt even NEARLY that long, but it has both numbers letters and special chars lowercase and uppercase so its just as hard to crack as it is your long password.....
But still i think some people take security of their personal stuff WAY too far, then again thats just my opinion.
Sh4ad0wX - do you also carry around some pr0n files with you??? lol :)
Na,I keep it all in 1 of those plastic school wallets:D.But just out of curiosity how do you crack anti-online passwords:p?.
-Sh4d0wX
You dont ;)
lol... I knew this guy who's password was his phone number, pager number, and then Social security number.... I noticed he typed in a long all number password (never took his hand away from the number pad) and it only took three guesses.... so I paged him his SS# :)
I don't even know my AntiOnline password! I just let my cookies do the hard work :)
Add in a little alt + 255 at the end if you can.
Sh4d0wX, you might consider exporting your favorites to the same floopy your passwords are on, then you could just import them when your going to spend some time on the computer or work right off the floppy
For the root password on my Linux box I'm using a person's name. I'm using the first, middle, and last names. I know using names is generally not a good idea, but none of the three names are that common, especially the last name. This has the advantage of being easy to remember. Also, since they are personal names, they won't appear in a dictionary and be susceptible to dictionary cracking attacks. So, my password ends up being 16 characters, but it's really easy to remember and I think, hard to crack.
For security items I use complex passwords for the forums here I use a password I can remember :D . I have a good memory just damn short!
for my passwords i tend to use out-dated data...like my HS Student ID(i graduated HS over 2 years ago, so nobody should be able to get that), along with other things that mix upper and lower case letters. the one thing that i have never really been able to incorporate into my passwords successfully(READ: so i could remember them) is symbols and special chars. i figure mine are relitivaly safe and what do i really have to protect with most of my PW's...i mean they're all like forum login passwords and such...who's gonna go through the trouble of cracking those and why?
I thought I was carefull with my pass.....untill I saw Sh4d0wX's post. LOL what paranoid thoughts on the guy. By Making it so difficult you are kicking yourself in the ass. Unless you cause alot of trouble you are not in any serious danger. There are alot of ways to keep your info safe from your Brother and the outside world. But hey if your method works....do it....
The Jingle bells password may be easier to break due to the repeating sequences of characters.
True... It helps confuse crackers using l0phtcrack (for say, others might do the same thing) since their gui won't show the alt-255 char!Quote:
Ammo
Juridian: That is the thing with passwords. You don't initially know if there are any repeating sequencies, etc. For all you know, their password could be a single letter, or it could be the limit. Unless you really know the person, you will have little clue what their pass is. Even if you do, it is still difficult, even if you see what they type (unless you have good eyes). If it was encrypted, and a person had the encrypted file, they might notice repetitions, but if it is a secure network (such as AO), then they never get access to the password file, and thus never know anything about their password...
-Tim_axe
Greetings All:
Well, this "problem" has been fixed.
Talk about being anal..................
thead closed.