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Spaces in passwords

Discussion in 'Security' started by Kaabi, Oct 15, 2006.

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    I have found that putting spaces in passwords is a great way to make a simple password very secure. Hardly anyone uses spaces in passwords so it is a good way to "trick" the hackers. Although I'm not sure if hacker technology uses spaces when guessing passwords :eek:
     
    Kaabi, Oct 15, 2006 IP
  2. 2mob.net

    2mob.net Peon

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    It is but you need to have some other means to stop SQL injections.

    The best way to protect your forms is to limit the type of characters that
    can be submitted from your forms. Limit, or slow down the automatic
    submissions/guesses. Provide means to generate false positives, etc.

    Use not just spaces, but other $#_@^ characters, digits. But protect
    your server from shell, SQL injections.
     
    2mob.net, Oct 16, 2006 IP
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    Even better is to use characters not found on regular keyboards. Because those aren't listed by default in bruteforce apps & scripts.
     
    eXe, Oct 16, 2006 IP
  4. Kaabi

    Kaabi Well-Known Member

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    Is it possible to use the character map found in System Tools? Nobody would be able to get through the Hebrew letter aleph!
     
    Kaabi, Oct 16, 2006 IP
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    why so complected? Just use a non-vocabulary password more than 7 chars and a few numbers there.
    For example the password "ngFDbn45" will be enough secure, since it is
    almost impossible to bruteforce such password. it will take a LOT of time to do that.
     
    hgsupb, Oct 18, 2006 IP
  6. Kaabi

    Kaabi Well-Known Member

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    My password for my sites is the same as my school password, which begins with a number, followed by 5 random letters, then another number. So it is really safe. Perhaps I gave too much information about my password right there? But then one would have to still find my name, then my school, then somehow hack their system and get my password. I think I'm safe.
     
    Kaabi, Oct 19, 2006 IP
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    Last I use password with html code + space and it very strong.
    For example I want to pass='123456' but I use: pass='<u>1 23456 </u>
    Between 1 and 2 is 3 spaces, after 6 is 2 spaces but keylog detect my pass='1 23456' only. Very strong and hard to decrypt
     
    thuonghieu, Nov 22, 2006 IP