• ouRKaoS@lemmy.today
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    2 months ago

    Password Strength: Medium

    ✅ More than 8 characters

    ✅ At least one number

    ❌ At least one special character

    ❌ At least one capital letter

    • boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net
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      2 months ago

      The thing is, nobody knows if you write a special character or not. They might try to brute force passwords without first. But the way more important factor is length.

      Just 5 random words and you are fine

      • haui@lemmy.giftedmc.com
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        When I wasnt using a password manager for password creation I just did random sentences that were not allowed to have meaning. They were quite easy to memorize because they were so absurd. Usual password check would be 3 trillion trillion years or something.

  • AllOutOfBubbleGum@lemmy.world
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    You could probably write a Hashcat plugin to brute force that pretty easily. Something that tries groupings of keys that are adjacent to one another on qwerty keyboard layouts.

  • EmperorHenry@infosec.pub
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    my cat will sometimes put his paws on the left-shit, left-control, caps lock, tab, and the other buttons on that side.

    and sometimes when I’m up late at night, I don’t realize that I was typing in caps