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Books on password coding?

post #1 of 11
9/4/11 at 12:29am
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I keep a master list of over 200 + passwords to physical and virtual locks. I've developed my own ways to hide the password but are there books out there that could lend more expertise on the subject?
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post #2 of 11
9/4/11 at 1:28am
http://familycrafts.about.com/od/alteredartandcollage/a/How-To-Make-A-Book-Safe.htm

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post #3 of 11
9/4/11 at 1:33am
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you idiot. I was referring to instead of writing down "attoliniforever" for a password I can use a323asdfas323 and still manage to decode it back to attoliniforever when the time comes. happy.gif
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post #4 of 11
9/4/11 at 7:50am
I suggest doing an md5 hash in your head. Then if you think you know what it is, hash that value and see if it matches.

Seriously tho it's 2011 and there are better ways to do things...
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post #5 of 11
9/4/11 at 1:57pm
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Originally Posted by Pantisocrat View Post

you idiot. I was referring to instead of writing down "attoliniforever" for a password I can use a323asdfas323 and still manage to decode it back to attoliniforever when the time comes. happy.gif

I know. Seriously though, do you really need that level of encryption? Thanks for giving me your password by the way biggrin.gif
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post #6 of 11
9/4/11 at 2:05pm
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Originally Posted by GQgeek View Post

I suggest doing an md5 hash in your head. Then if you think you know what it is, hash that value and see if it matches.

Seriously tho it's 2011 and there are better ways to do things...

+1. With stuff such as LastPass.com, there are some really good security management options out there.
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post #7 of 11
9/4/11 at 6:11pm
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Originally Posted by dah328 View Post


+1. With stuff such as LastPass.com, there are some really good security management options out there.

ya. i use lastpass. it's great. i use long randomized pws for everything and use 2 factor authentication to access my lastpass account. I do a print out once in a while for safekeeping in case something ever happens to the account because i have no idea what any of my PWs actually are.
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post #8 of 11
9/5/11 at 3:00am
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post #9 of 11
9/5/11 at 10:56am
If you use a mac, 1password is great.
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post #10 of 11
9/5/11 at 1:08pm
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I came to this thread to post this.
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post #11 of 11
9/5/11 at 1:20pm
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Originally Posted by Gibonius View Post


I came to this thread to post this.

A lot of thought goes in to this by security people. Unfortunately, it's not that simple. Using long pass-phrases is still preferable in general, but as users become trained to do it that way, or when companies recommend them as a matter of policy, it's easy to modify the code so that the word becomes the basic unit an algorithm works again instead of a character. When that occurs, the entropy of a password is reduced significantly despite its often significantly longer length.

But ya, l33t speak doesn't fool anyone and it's common knowledge that punctuation and special characters usually come at the end, and capitalization at the beginning, and that out of the entire keyspace, only a bit over 30 characters (32 or 34 i think) are used with much higher frequency than any others.
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