Encryption software

[Martin KyteParticipant @martinkyte99762]

It's interesting to find out how fast a computer can crack your passwords these days.

There are a number of 'online password testers' available, don't use live one obviously.

Here are 4 examples.

6%#863 – 6millisecs

blooge3 – 2 secs

railSTEELtell – 16 thousand years

railSTEELtell1@ 16 billion years

The third example is good and interestingly the easiest to remember. Often sites will insist on some numbers and other characters also so I added 1@ which doesn't really make it that much harder to remember.

The construction is from Floyd's lyric on wish you were here. Pick a phrase/verse or lyric. Extract 3 words capitalise one of them and add some numbers/other characters.

Weak passwords are worse than useless, tough passwords do not have to be hard to remember.

regards Martin

[Douglas JohnstonParticipant @douglasjohnston98463]

Posted by Robin Graham on 16/02/2020 21:57:43:

But I'm irrational and it just feels wrong! I'd probably forget where where I'd put the list anyway – I'm hopelessly chaotic in the real world, lose or misplace almost everything, but methodical and tidy with computers.

I am also irrational and feel keeping passwords anywhere connected to the computer is more risky than writing them down, so we are probably both right for our own brains.

Doug

[Ian McVickersParticipant @ianmcvickers56553]

If you have a samsung phone you can use the secure folder app.

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