Password Length

[EpsiIon]

Originally posted by: her209

Originally posted by: EpsiIon
*cough* UNIX *cough*

^ ignores any charcters after the eighth. I'd probaby use something other than "password," but it's exactly 8 characters and my friends seem to think it's pretty clever.

p@55w0rd

Are you kidding? That has funny shaped letters in it. I don't know how to use those.

 

[nageov3t]

depends.

for stupid stuff like web forums or email, it's only 4 characters.

for work and logging into my computer at home, it bounces between 6-9 characters. there's one long phrase that I use; I cycle between different parts of the phrase for my password, changing them every 3 months. once I've used the entire phrase, I find a new one.

 

[cavemanmoron]

:evil:

 

[mordantmonkey]

Originally posted by: her209

Originally posted by: us3rnotfound
directly proportional to the size of my dick
> 12"

Do you know what "proportional" means?

do you?

he said directly, but he probably meant inversely

 

[Miramonti]

My roboform password is 24 characters and my online backup is 20. Those are basically the only ones I know, the only ones I need to know.

 

[ts3433]

Used to be 6, but now 10. One of these days I'll bump it higher.

 

[bleuiko]

my password is longer than yours!

 

[Vertimus]

Wow... I have five 25-char randomly generated uppercase/lowercase/symbols rotating for new passwords right now, and countless older passwords that are still >15 chars.

Is this overkill?

 

[Rudee]

how many letters is the word "password"? ;

 

[Gamingphreek]

Mine is 16 Characters with uppercase, lower case, symbols, numbers.

I have heard that the asterisk is what really throws off password crackers.

-Kevin

 

[Jon855]

Originally posted by: Gamingphreek
Mine is 16 Characters with uppercase, lower case, symbols, numbers.

I have heard that the asterisk is what really throws off password crackers.

-Kevin

This would be interesting to trycrack a password by brute force with an asterisk comparing it with the other symbols, seeing which one throws it off the most.

 

[cjgallen]

Depends on the value of the information protected.

Forum passwords - 6-8 characters
Bank Accts - 10 characters or more, mixed case, numbers/symbols

 

[Bv3]

Originally posted by: Ikonomi
**********

OMG how did u know? I think I've been hacked!!@!!

 

[rh71]

I hate the fact that there's no standard rules for passwords... have too many different ones because of differing rules.

 

[tami]

most of my passwords are 7 or 8 characters.

 

[GhettoFob]

7-9

 

[DainBramaged]

11

 

[FoBoT]

what do you mean by 'password'?

 

[Soapy Bones]

Mine are all around 10 characters, seems to be safe.

 

[CraigRT]

6 or 8

 

[tRaptor]

Right now mine is 11.

 

[SSP]

My password is 1 2 3 4 5.

 

[WHipLAsh13]

When I get excited my password grows to about 12, but its only about 6 normally.

 

[TallBill]

One thats 5, one thats 7, and thats alphanumeric and 8. Then I have a alphanumeric uppercase/lowercase symbol password thats 11 characters long, and then another thats 12. I friggin hate having so many. I wish that there was a standard.

 

[EagleKeeper]

A few that are 8-10 characters.

Another that is the size of my thumb.