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Originally posted by Halx
i use 20 character passwords of random numbers and letters... i actually memorize each one that I use for various situations...
then again, I could be lying
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You're kidding, right?
Aha, but kidding about which statement?!
I'm guilty myself of using a common password for many websites. It's no big deal if this is compromised.
But for work, and online banking etc, I use a long complex password with a mixture of upper, lower, numeric and extended characters.
For those of you who are interested, a 14char complex password has 94 ^ 14 possibilities. That equates to 4,205,231,901,698,742,834,534,301,696 different passwords.
Using a standard dictionary lookup tool, with a speed of 25M checks per second, this would require approximately ~1.9*108yrs to search an entire dictionary.
Mr Mephisto