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Passwords Are Finished, Say Hello To Passphrases … A Story of An Elm Tree and A Bonnet
The password as a concept is nearly finished, as it’s not too difficult to crack the hash versions of them. And so nine characters passwords can often be cracked within hours, and 10 character passwords with days. A major problem is the usage of words from a dictionary, and so we get passwords such as:
%jkL9$4h.f@fDd
and which are almost impossible to remember.
And so for our passwords we should possibly move towards having phrases which link words together, and which can be easily memorized. For this the EFF are here to protect you, and so they have created a wordlist that can be used to create random passphrases:
They are generated by a roll of five dices [here]:
If we roll a dice with “1”, “1”, “1”, “1”, and “1”, we generate the word of “abacus”. So what’s the probability that I will guess your word? Well, there are six possible values so the probabaility will…
