How to make a good all-around password

Robert Stratton bob at stratton.net
Thu May 5 20:41:20 CDT 2011


Actually, I know someone who has a service using Amazon EC2 cloud computing instances for exactly that purpose. 

On May 5, 2011, at 9:22 PM, Mike O'Dell wrote:

> 
> there is no such thing as a "good" password, not since
> it became economically viable to do a brute-force
> dictonary attack with every ASCII printable string
> of reasonable length.
> 
> i have no doub that significant supercomputers (ie, clusters)
> are in use today (by "civilians") doing nothing but attacking
> passwords.
> 
> 	-mo
> 
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