Maxwell Lol wrote:
Leon Fisk writes:

On Mon, 03 Nov 2008 16:37:59 -0600, Jon Elson
wrote:

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I also made the password even harder to guess, essentially gibberish!
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The best, hardest to crack, easy to remember passwords are
simply long phrases. Like:

"my favorite car was a 1973 chevy elcamino"

Unless the system merely uses the first 7 or 8 characters, and truncates the rest.
You can be VERY sure that Linux uses ALL the
characters. With ssh logins, there are encryption
keys that are 1024 characters long, thank God they
don't make you type these in. Of course, by
making them so long they HAVE to be stored on some
computer, that compromises their security.

Jon