A better way to think about passwords

[Andre Amorim]

Just "blood-thing" about linguist reminds-me "language acquisition" anyways ....

On 28 May 2011 00:16, Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg at fifthhorseman.net> wrote:
> On Sun, 17 Apr 2011 15:49:58 -0700, Doug Barton <dougb at 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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