On Sun, 17 Apr 2011 15:49:58 -0700, Doug Barton <do...@dougbarton.us> wrote: > Summary: A 3-word password (e.g., "quick brown fox") is secure against > cracking attempts for 2,537 years. > > http://www.baekdal.com/tips/password-security-usability
A computational linguist's rebuttal to Baekdal's post: http://trochee.net/2011/05/fragments-will-not-save-us/ The takeaway: Baekdal's analysis only holds for extremely naïve brute force attempts. Please don't assume that all attackers will be so naïve. --dkg
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