On generated versus random passwords
November 11, 2011 at 10:26 AM | categories: geek, security, crypto | View Comments
I was reading a story about a hacked password database and saw this comment where the poster wanted to make a little program to generate non-random passwords for every site he visits:I was thinking of something simpler such as "echo MyPassword69! slashdot.org|md5sum" and then"aaa53a64cbb02f01d79e6aa05f0027ba" using that as my password since many sites will take 32-character long passwords or theywill truncate for you. More generalized than PasswordMaker and easier to access but no alpha-num+symbol translation and only(32) 0-9af characters but that should be random enough, or you can do sha1sum instead for a little longer hash string.I posted a reply but...
