Wednesday, 14 March 2012

Passphrases suck less than passwords, but they still suck

In "Linguistic properties of multi-word passphrases" (PDF, generates an SSL error) Cambridge's Joseph Bonneau and Ekaterina Shutova demonstrate that multi-word passphrases are more secure (have more entropy) than average user passwords composed of "random" characters, but that neither is very secure. In a blog post, Joseph Bonneau sums up the paper and the research that [...]

Source: http://boingboing.net/2012/03/13/passphrases-suck-less-than-pas.html

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