Reply to post: Re: The Usual Response...

Use an 8-char Windows NTLM password? Don't. Every single one can be cracked in under 2.5hrs

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Re: The Usual Response...

Use passphrases, not words, "AworldinwhichIdieonTuesday" is stronger in basically every way when compared to "trump3t"

On private services I find the password length is often limited, so no joy. And on corporate systems you've always got your company's ITSec brainiac imposing rules about changing every one to three months, demanding mixes of upper case, lower case, special characters, numbers, no repeated characters etc etc.

When the company want proper password security, I presume they'll come up with better rules...

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