Well, I have red your research about passowrds, but I like to comment that a complex and easy to memorize password can be created. To do so you have to creat a formula for you in your mind e.g. "Last 3 letters of your e mail address then # sing then first 3 letters of your email address in CAPS, t...

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doesn't adding just one extended character like alt+60001 increase the dictionary size that must be searched with by enough to make them useful, it might be 6 characters for a single char, but if placed randomly in the password it does require the brute force hack to try characters of that style in ...

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While most of the advice here is good, some of it is just garbage.

Using familiar structures like phone numbers, file paths, or emails is a great way to improve the likelihood that your password can be guessed -- not cracked, just GUESSED. After a couple of days of use, a skilled typist can enter...

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What is the fastest rate at which an XP box can accept login attempts? I find it very hard to believe the answer is "millions"

This article also did not discuss the userid/password pair. This is almost 2-factor authentication unless someone has discovered your userid.

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Using a phrase is far easier to remember than a password, and with 127 characters at your disposal, you can easily use it.

For example, the paragraph above could be used as a pass phrase, and fit in with the requirements. Of course, you'd need to be a good typist to ensure that you could type tha...

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Most OSes do not allow for spaces in passwords. I don't know of many *NIX environments that do. However, Darwin and OS X do allow for spaces.

I have also found that for my passwords, using the first or last letter of every word in a sentance makes for a very strong and difficult to crack password...

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I must say, using an email address as a password seems like dubious advice. I may as well use my wife's birthday or something equally cliché....

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If keyloggers are a concern you can use the Windows on-screen keyboard (WindowsKey - u) to turn your password into a series of mouse moves and clicks. Of course that makes shoulder surfing much easier....

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You can use ADSIedit.msc to set the AD atribute "minPwdLength" to a value of 15 chars. This only works in 2003 AFAIK....

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Historically, ALT-255 added some security in the DOS days because it printed whitespace -- so if you typed a password that wasn't getting obscured on the screen, it looked like you simply entered a space.

But under windows this is indeed pretty pointless today....

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I like to use sentences, those are easy to remember and the final password is not bad. For instance, I can use "Iossfmb1glfm" and just remember what was said on the first step on the moon. Using the first letter of words of a sentence that makes sense to you alone has been working very well (for me ...

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