By: JimboC
Hi Alan, While I agree with you that the maths don’t lie, I will still try to have the password length increased. I am not the only one who would like the option of having this. Fellow commenter , John...
View ArticleBy: Internaut
The Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, one of Canada's leading banks, online banking requires the user to select a password of 8 characters - one must be a upper case, and one must be a number - more...
View ArticleBy: Randy
16 characters is more than enough for good security. I have an 11 digit PW that the Password security calculator estimated would take 43 centuries to crack with a supercomputer.
View ArticleBy: Rich Tee
A bank should only allow about three incorrect attempts before locking you out. If your bank doesn't do this - change banks!
View ArticleBy: thecoppicer
1) The above links to a password analyser are (fortunately) broken. 2) Nevertheless, directing readers of this article to any website which encourages people to submit passwords online so as to "test...
View ArticleBy: Shane Pearson
Putting such a small limit on their passwords suggests to me that they are not hashing at all, since hashes take input of arbitrary length and provide output of a fixed length hash. Cryptographically...
View ArticleBy: Shane Pearson
For an online attack presumably? I have used Ophcrack to audit XP and AD passwords with the XP Special Characters rainbow tables and with them on a bootable USB flash drive, 14 character passwords...
View ArticleBy: Robert W.
I tried the "Preview" of the Outlook.com email system, and it really stinks! There are virtually no email server features we are used to compared to the usual MSN, Live and Hotmail email client or...
View ArticleBy: Geordie Stewart
Password strength is largely irrelevant for online security. The main authentication risks these days are password re-use, password database disclosures and key-loggers. Password strength is of no help...
View ArticleBy: Jonathan
I have never given much thought to this because most of the places that want a password don't know who I am and I don't think hackers are at all interested in me. But I did run my 13 digit password...
View ArticleBy: Tearfang
yes if you password is randomly generated 16 chars is enough. However if your password is something that you can actually remember and still secure it needs to be longer. pass phrases can end up being...
View ArticleBy: Anonomous
You forgot security questions. A lot of famous people's accounts have been 'hacked' in the last few years simply by calling up armed with some public facts about the person... My password is largely...
View ArticleBy: Phil Cooper
As long as you're only supplying a password or passphrase to test, but not the associated login, it should be pretty safe.
View ArticleBy: Ceejay Perez
They have since increased the length, but there is now a warning on the password setting page. The warning says: “Warning: Passwords longer than 16 characters cannot be used with the Xbox 360”
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