Re: RIP and key destruction
- From: Mike Scott <usenet.11@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2007 10:58:21 GMT
Mike wrote:
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safe!
It strikes me that an easy to remember password would be far more secure as it wouldn't get written down.
*exactly*
A few years ago I encrypted various documents (pdf/excel etc) using my
log on password which I regard as secure *and* memorable. I then ran
commercially available cracking tools (from elcomsoft) on these
documents and none of them were cracked over a period of a couple of
weeks using a bunch of 1GHz Pentium 3's
It was a good soak test for the hardware while I was away on holiday
:)
Way back when, I used to work with the IT dept to crack my company's users' passwords (I had a distributed version of Crack up and running on a network of 60 or so Sun machines) to check they were reasonably secure.
I /knew/ my own was good - a combination of badly mis-spelled words plus symbols. Trouble was, a [trusted!] colleague ran my code against my password - but using a German dictionary; he got it in a couple of hours, because my mis-spellings together constituted a single German word. Definitely an egg-on-face job :-)
So you never can be /really/ sure -- unless you use a truly random string.
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Mike Scott (unet <at> scottsonline.org.uk)
Harlow Essex England
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