[ale] evernote security breach

Ron Frazier (ALE) atllinuxenthinfo at techstarship.com
Mon Mar 4 21:49:07 EST 2013



JD <jdp at algoloma.com> wrote:

>On 03/04/2013 06:54 PM, Jay Lozier wrote:
>>>
>> I tend to use very long gibberish passwords (Keypassx) that include
>any keyboard
>> character including punctuation. I consider 15 characters
>unacceptably short.
>
>This.
>
>KeePass v1.x on Windows
>KeePassX on Linux
>KeePassDroid on Android
>
>they all share the same binary DB.  Easy to rsync everywhere, though I
>suppose
>if you trust 3rd parties, something like dropbox could do it too.
>
>If I am not going to type the password, and I don't with KeePass - why
>not use
>something long, random, unique, if it is allowed?  My default is 44
>chars. Only
>after that is rejected and I carefully read the requirements will I
>limit the
>alphabet.
>
>I consider anything less than 20 characters weak.
>
>Look up "Pure Hate's password cracking" presentation and you'll never
>use
>anything less than 15 characters again.

Thanks.  Found this link.  I think it's the video you referred to.

http://vimeo.com/21293347

Ron

>
>My passwords are not just for today, but I'm trying to be reasonably
>secure for
>that data for the next 20 yrs.  People are recording and saving
>encrypted
>traffic today to be cracked in the future.  They are working on
>encrypted
>traffic from 15 yrs ago now - AND being successful.
>
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