Wall Street Journal reports security breach against LinkedIn passwords

Michael Lowry 41magnum at liberty.eprci.com
Thu Jun 7 16:55:10 EDT 2012


I've been using pwgen to generate password (stored in a pgp encrypted file).

I know pwgen is in the Fedora repo.

Michael

On Thu, 07 Jun 2012 16:21:03 -0400
Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> wrote:

> 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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