Interesing facts on Password strength: length beats complexity

Thanks to Kate Gregory for the reference.

This article: http://www.avertlabs.com/research/blog/index.php/2007/11/02/password-policy-length-vs-complexity/ points out that increasing password length helps more than increasing password complexity in terms of security.

I've been using pass phrases for several years.  Most of my passwords are several word, which means they may be as long as 400 characters. And yet, they are easy for me to remember, and I don't have to write them down on some little sticky note that can be compromised.

 

Published 11 December 2007 08:01 AM by wwagner
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# Joel Marcey said on 11 December, 2007 09:33 AM

You don't really have a 400 character password do you? That would be crazy. That would take 2 minutes to enter and that is if you don't make a mistake in the middle somewhere ;-)

What do you do on sites that only allow a password "up to 8 characters"?

# eeyy » Interesing facts on Password strength: length beats complexity said on 12 December, 2007 12:51 AM

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