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Password Cracking
Use the shadow password suite
- Protects password hashes from mortals
Use strong passwords
- At least 6 characters
- One character from each of the following
- Normal characters (a-z)
- Capitals (A-Z)
- Numbers (0-9)
- Special Characters (!@#$<space>~`+=_-*&^)
- No relation with you or your username/real name
- Doesn't exist as a word in ANY language
John will otherwise find it...
Notes:
John: http://www.openwall.com/john
Word lists: ftp://ftp.ox.ac.uk/pub/wordlists
An easy way to create secure passwords, is to think of a phrase, title or quote that you like:
“Welcome To The Machine” : Pink Floyd
becomes WttM:PF
which is a fair password. Add some numbers to stiffen it up a little:
Wt1M:PF should give John a serious headache!