On 6/14/2014 2:06 PM, Patrick Chkoreff wrote: > Don Armstrong wrote, On 06/14/2014 01:04 PM: > >> If you just want purely random passwords, though, you might try >> makepasswd instead. pwgen is more biased towards generating >> distinguishable, memorable passwords instead of truly random ones. > > Here's a way to generate a *truly* random password that is *also* memorable: > > http://diceware.com > > Instead of using your computer to generate allegedly random bits, you > use five six-sided dice to generate truly random bits. > > > -- Patrick > >
Not good at all. With 5 dice, you have 6^5 or 7,776 possible combinations. Just figuring 5 upper and lower case characters and numbers, you have 62^5 or 916,132,832 (more if you add special characters). Even a 3 alphanumeric (upper and lower) case character password has 238,328 possible combinations. I wouldn't even consider this a weak password. It's much worse than that. The fact you can have combinations of words doesn't add that much security, especially if someone thinks you're using the diceware list. Jerry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/539d05b0.5050...@attglobal.net
