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How can I create a secure password?

I know the standard tricks, create a long password, numbers, symbols, capital letters, etc. My questions is how do I judge password security. I heard different tricks to make secure passwords. For example, until the famous xkcd comic came out (correcthorsebatterystaple), that would be a perfect password. No cracker would target it per-se, and to brute force it would take forever. Now that the pattern is known, that password style is not nearly as secure, since cracking software is now made to target...

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Strictly speaking, you cannot measure the entropy of a password. (Or if you like, you can measure it...

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How far we should push end users using secure password?

Everyone knows that its good to have secure password, but very few people actually has it. Where are the limits, for common web service provider (managing users accounts), to enforce end-users using secure password. I know people who would say its user...

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Sadly, I have to say that the most of my co-workers are using WAY too weak passwords, even though the...

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How do websites tell whether your intended password is secure or not (looking at the characters) if reading the password itself to determine that seems to be a breach of your security?

We know that many sites tell whether a password is secure enough or not based on whether is a combination of alphabet, number and a special character. Also we know that the password is encrypted before it reaches their server. Then how do they know whether...

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You might want to read: How does SSL work?

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How does Facebook (product) / Google (company) / Microsoft (company) and other major internet company secure their users password in case of security breach?

Credit: xkcd: Encryptic Related: Cryptographic Blunders Revealed by Adobe's Password Leak How Adobe’s messy password breach can spill to sites like Diapers.com Anatomy of a password disaster - Adobe's giant-sized cryptographic blunder ...

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There are basically two things to learn from recent incidents, I do not know how Google or Facebook...

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What are good ways check that how secure is any password?

I have found How Secure Is My Password? which gives time required to crack any password entered. Can we develop similar algorithm which can give the strength of any password ?

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You should try Telepathwords - preventing weak passwords by reading your mind. As you start typing your...

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I have private data in a folder. how to secure it by password? i mean no one can open it without password.?

i would like to secure a specific FOLDER by password so that others can not open it.

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You can use .zip and put a pwd on it.

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For security purposes I want to use a different password on every service I log into. How secure is it to use a master password to generate all the sub-passwords by SHA-1?

My master password is long, complex, not written anywhere, and not stored on any electronic services, hashed or unhashed, except in temporary RAM for the code below. My scheme is to generate the sub-passwords by base64(sha1(masterpassword+"/"...

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There are two glaring problems with this approach (if I understand it correctly - that you generate...

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How do a password secure an app in OS X?

How do I password protect a specific app in OS X? I'm looking to password protect my address book in OS X so I can use it to store info like web site passwords and other sensitive stuff. I'd like to set address book to prompt me with a password when...

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Try this.

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How secure is using the MD5 hash with the MySQL's PASSWORD() function?

I'm using the following: PASSWORD(md5($password)); Will it be secure enough?

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No. Using MD5 in the way you show doesn't help security at all. And you don't seem to be using a salt...

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How to print secure documents with a password?

We have a Konica Minolta Bizhub C300. My boss has sent me on a mission to find out how to print secure documents with a password required. I have read the manuals and managed to give myself a headache. I've check the website and that has been no help...

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Unless you can obtain the password or you can 'crack' the security embedded in the document, I'm afraid...

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