Ryan McGinnis via Gnupg-users wrote: > Went to a security seminar where I asked a random FBI agent after a > presentation about passwords; he said just to get into > their personal terminals it was something like 17 characters minimum and that > the passwords were randomly generated letters > and numbers and symbols and that they were changed fairly often. If you're > trying to protect something from offline brute > forcing and the password is the weak point, you're probably best off coming > up with a really long randomly generated diceware > phrase (7 words ought to be safe) https://www.rempe.us/diceware/#eff.
Thanks for the info! Regarding diceware, I looked into it long ago, but must admit I am not good at remembering many word sequences, for many strong passwords, even if diceware words are easy once. Regards Stefan -- my 'hidden' service gopherhole: gopher://iria2xobffovwr6h.onion _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
