{"id":412,"date":"2011-10-04T13:52:46","date_gmt":"2011-10-04T18:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/?p=412"},"modified":"2011-10-04T13:57:10","modified_gmt":"2011-10-04T18:57:10","slug":"password-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/2011\/10\/04\/password-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Password Security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/passwordsecurity.bmp\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"414\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/2011\/10\/04\/password-security\/passwordsecurity\/\" data-orig-file=\"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/passwordsecurity.bmp\" data-orig-size=\"\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"[]\" data-image-title=\"passwordsecurity\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/passwordsecurity.bmp\" data-large-file=\"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/passwordsecurity.bmp\" class=\"size-full wp-image-414 alignleft\" title=\"passwordsecurity\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/passwordsecurity.bmp\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>When is a password secure? How long would it take a hacker to break it?<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/tips.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"How Secure Is My Password?\" href=\"http:\/\/howsecureismypassword.net\" target=\"_blank\">Use this website to check your own password<\/a>. Mine hit 2 million years&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Ways to create a strong password:<\/p>\n<p>1) no dictionary words, proper nouns &#8211; nothing backwards or with a number simply tacked on the end<br \/>\n2) no personal information (don&#8217;t use a child or pet&#8217;s name, birthdate. phone numbers, etc&#8230;) &#8211; at least make it a challenge for the hacker<br \/>\n3) length, width and depth create a degree of complexity<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>longer is better (6 &#8211; 9 characters?)<\/li>\n<li>width is the type of characters &#8211; use 3 of the 4 types in your password (A,B,C,etc. and a,b,c,&#8230; and \u00c2\u00a01,2,3,&#8230; and $,?,&amp;)<\/li>\n<li>depth &#8211; choose something difficult to guess; think of phrases, use mnemonics, use the first letter of each word in a phrase, substitute numbers for letters, etc..<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For more information, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\" target=\"_blank\">use google<\/a>. Here are a few links to get your started:<\/p>\n<div>http:\/\/i.zdnet.com\/blogs\/password_strength.png?tag=siu-container;attachment_1341<\/div>\n<div>http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Password_strength<\/div>\n<div>http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/security\/online-privacy\/passwords-create.aspx<\/div>\n<div>http:\/\/www.tcnj.edu\/~it\/security\/passwords.html<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When is a password secure? How long would it take a hacker to break it?<\/p>\n<p>Use this website to check your own password. Mine hit 2 million years&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":201,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[37],"tags":[28,36],"class_list":["post-412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tips-work-2","tag-computers","tag-tips","item-wrap"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/tips.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1xumr-6E","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}