Re: Restricted password useage
- From: "Steven L Umbach" <n9rou@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 13:10:59 -0500
Good stuff. I was at Redmond last winter where he gave his talk on
passwords and pass phrases. The use of rainbow tables have made cracking of
shorter passwords fairly trivial though there is not enough storage to
create rainbow tables with all the possibilities for 20 character passwords
and pass phrases are just easier to remember. --- Steve MVP Windows
Security
"Mark Heitbrink [MVP]" <spam-only@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Steven L Umbach schrieb:
>> Otherwise consider enforcing long passwords such as a minimum of 15
>> characters and training your users to think pass phrases instead of
>> passwords. For instance " I forget my stupid password " [...]
>
> There is a good article about the discussion of using passwords
> or passphrases, from Jesper M. Johansson.
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/secnews/articles/itproviewpoint091004.mspx
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/secnews/articles/itproviewpoint100504.mspx
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/columns/secmgmt/sm1204.mspx
>
> Mark
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