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Someones been trying to get to my account
Vio:
Simple deterrent to this. Make your recovery answers long-ass jumbles of letters and numbers. Write the answers down (Don't save them on your computer) and hide the paper somewhere.
Mochacho456:
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--- Quote from: Flame Outlaw on January 11, 2012, 02:38:49 am ---The biggest thing I can tell you is to make sure you use capital letters, numbers, and symbols in your passwords. Doing that would pretty much null and void brute force hackers..
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Obviously you don't know how brute force hackings work.
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--- Quote ---In cryptography, a brute-force attack, or exhaustive key search, is a strategy that can, in theory, be used against any encrypted data.[1] Such an attack might be utilized when it is not possible to take advantage of other weaknesses in an encryption system (if any exist) that would make the task easier. It involves systematically checking all possible keys until the correct key is found. In the worst case, this would involve traversing the entire search space.
The key length used in the encryption determines the practical feasibility of performing a brute-force attack, with longer keys exponentially more difficult to crack than shorter ones. Brute-force attacks can be made less effective by obfuscating the data to be encoded, something that makes it more difficult for an attacker to recognise when he/she has cracked the code. One of the measures of the strength of an encryption system is how long it would theoretically take an attacker to mount a successful brute-force attack against it.
Brute-force attacks are an application of brute-force search, the general problem-solving technique of enumerating all candidates and checking each one.
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So next time, be a dick to someone else that is trying to help you.
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All possible combination's, making symbols, numbers and capital letters obsolete. I work in network security. There are 9 terabyte rainbow tables out there.
The best protection against brute force is a long ass password that can't be guessed.
Flame Outlaw:
I work for the government maintaining communications, providing network security, and detecting system vulnerabilities. While a long password is great, having them all lowercase letters defeats the purpose. Passwords with all lowercase letters are generally tried first. The best combination is a long password with lower case, upper case, symbols, and numbers.
JC:
Don't forget RS passwords aren't case sensitive :3
Mark:
--- Quote from: JC on January 20, 2012, 04:56:07 am ---Don't forget RS passwords aren't case sensitive :3
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SHUT THE FUCK DOWN