Wall Street Journal reports security breach against LinkedIn passwords

[Jerry Feldman]

On 06/07/2012 02:40 PM, John Abreau wrote:
> Well, I often vary the length; some of my passwords are 48 characters.
> A lot of websites limit the maximum length they'll accept for passwords,
> typically to something far less than 48.
>
> I'd be curious to hear if there's a command-line password generator
> that's better than apg, or if apg has any known weaknesses.
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 2:07 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen
> <rozzin at geekspace.com> wrote:
>> John Abreau <jabr at blu.org> writes:
>>> I normally use "apg -m 14" to generate random 14-character passwords
>>> so I have a unique password for each and every website I register
>>> with.
>> Isn't knowing what the class of password we need to guess
>> half the battle?
>>
>>
I use LastPass to generate passwords. Additionally, you also would like
to use both upper and lower case, numbers and special characters.

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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
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