Tuesday, January 10, 2006
Using the Palm to create and manage good passwords (I)
With all the services we use today on the Internet, and being the use of computers and networks usually at work or studies, the number of user names and passwords we must remember that grows exponentially. Therefore, fall into bad habits that end up completely with the safety system. Although it is cumbersome:
- We must avoid passwords that have any meaning, as our birthday, our phone, the name of our family.
- Similarly, we must avoid passwords that are proper names or words in any language, as there are sophisticated programs dictionary attacks by bringing together all these terms and are systematically checking.
- Something that is widespread, and just completely with its usefulness, that writing our passwords on a piece of paper, and much worse, leave it in a place accessible to the side of the keyboard.
- Nor should we send our passwords by email, instant messaging, chat, etc., because information travels unencrypted by these channels, so many people are dedicated to intercept to get valuable information.
- We should not use the same password for everything.
- And given the increasingly common danger posed by phishing, we must never respond nigún email where we request our data or passwords, and unless the bank.
A poorly chosen password is easy to break
? Stos councils we will avoid these bad practices:
- We will make our passwords are at least 8 characters or more.
- The password must be uppercase letters, lowercase letters and numbers. If the system admit it would also be advisable to add some non-alphanumeric character as a bracket, an asterisk, and so on. This is because there are programmes attacks by brute force ranging trying all possible combinations, so that the longer our password and more variety of elements, containing the number of combinations to try to grow disproportionately.
- Try to change your password periodically.
- Finally, a good rule to invent a password may be the use of the first stanzas of lyrics, songs, proverbs, etc., provided they contain all the variety of characters. This example I found some time and I thought very explicit:
"M as v ale ajar p m e n anus
Q ue 100 v Flying "
From this saying I have indicated in bold characters that we could use for our password, leaving: "MvpemQ100v."
We have achieved a password of 10 characters that contains all the basic ingredients that commented: lowercase letters, uppercase and numbers. The result would be "MvpemQ100v"
Now that we know how they should be and how to preserve our passwords, comes the time of its implementation. But how can we bring into so many heads over whether to be long and complicated? In the next post Palm will see that our task this child's play, while adding more security to the system.
By: Mark Gonzalez Troyas in Tricks
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Great Post. At last encounter a system useful to remember passwords safe! A greeting!
The cuesión organized and always know, and have these little tricks
He had previously heard some tips on passwords but not the proverb, interesting.
Personally, my user profiles and store the passwords in a file as my TE2 *. pdb (encryption) that open with MobileDB Handmark (very good application besides free) in this way to access the bnco passwords need to know two keys , Which were unique because I remember every are generated.
Saludetes, good endorsement!