I like to use strong passwords for obvious reasons, and according to this site, using a brute force attack (as a dictionary attack would be useless), the password I use to edit this site would take 6,758,137,437,016,672,809,517,056 hours or 281,589,059,875,694,666,842,112 days to crack. My root server password? Quite a bit longer.
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I’ve got time. I’ll get you yet!
So what do you use to generate that password and how do you remember it?
My second question, what will actually allow you to try that many passwords without locking you out after 5 or so incorrect ones?
For generating random passwords, I use PWGen but I’m not about discuss how I remember my passwords or my security methods 🙂
My root password is pretty secure. It is rather long, yes, but it is really easy to remember because it has to do with lyrics to a song.
In my opinion pi would be a rather good password. especially if your password would be “pi3.141592653589793238462” and so on well, as far as you can remember