How long is your?

[GSeybold]

Get your mind out of the gutter:D ;)

Is there a good length for a real secure admin password? What's the average? Anyone know?

Mine is 34 characters? Is this excessive?

[Adrian Schneider]

10 chars, with at least one symbol, one number, and letters.

[SEOvB]

dont forget the capital letter

[dtv100]

mine is like 100 characters also use lot of space.

[Rapscallion]

mine is like 100 characters also use lot of space.

Maybe something like this (http://www.customerssuck.com/strip/index.php?date=2008-12-21) happened?

Rapscallion

[GSeybold]

Okay this is how stupid I am. I don't know if your kidding:) and I thought my pword was long. It's irritating as hell trying to remember it as well. :o


mine is like 100 characters also use lot of space.

[Taragon]

mine's 12, incl. uppercase, lowercase, numbers and symbols

[indie2industry]

Get your mind out of the gutter:D ;)

Is there a good length for a real secure admin password? What's the average? Anyone know?

Mine is 34 characters? Is this excessive?
Mine is only 3 characters. The girls usually laugh at my password but it's not the length. It's how you use it.

















LMAO!!!!!! I couldn't resist. :D

[Dean C]

Looks like the original posters mind's in the gutter too ;) Else why raise the point!

[iogames]

8.5" :D

p.s. Greek+Latin word + numbers + Capital

[Shelley_c]

8.5" :D

p.s. Greek+Latin word + numbers + Capital


I hope we aren't talking width josh. How is a woman to cope.

Anyhow, I forgotten, has to be in the double digits or thereabouts.

[unp]

I used to have a really long one so often I had problems logging in, So i cut it short, things are pretty smooth thereafter :)

[KTBleeding]

Mine is 8 characters, and I can confidently type it out in front of people, knowing that there is absolutely no way they could remember what it is.

[Wayne Luke]

For .htaccess passwords, they are usually 32-40 characters long. Though because I know my computer is secure (encrypted disks, ethernet connection, biometric access, in a room with 24 hour alarm system including motion and entry sensors), I let my browser remember them. On a wireless connection, I wouldn't do that.

Then to actually login to an Admin CP, it would be a more sensible password. Current one is 12 characters with digits and letters including upper and lower case. Don't usually use punctuation in a password. Thinking of putting Admin CP on a new site under SSL with a self-signed 128-bit certificate. No need for a commercial one since it is just for private use.

[Caddyman]

10 characters....varies though, sometimes less sometimes more....changed about monthly or bimonthly.

numbers, uppers, lowers, and punctuation.

[Lynne]

8 characters with numbers and symbols and uppercase/lowercase letters in it.

From a Password Security PDF file I have - this is from 2005:
The time to crack/hack passwords with respect to the password length and its complexity. The search speed supposedly equals 100,000 passwords per second (a very decent speed).

First column: Password length /charset
Second column:26 (no case, letters only)
Third column:36 (no case, letters & digits)
Fourth column:52 (case sensitive)
Fifth column:96 (all printable)

4 0 0 1 min 13 min
5 0 10 min 1 hr 22 hr
6 50 minutes 6 hrs 2.2 days 3 months
7 22 hrs 9 days 4 months 23 yrs
8 24 days 10.5 months 17 yrs 2,287 yrs
9 21 months 32.6 yrs 881 yrs 219,000 yrs
10 45 yrs 1,159 yrs 45,838 yrs 21 million yrs

[nexialys]

basic hackers passwords: sex,net,password,cash

... i hate complicated things

[GSeybold]

Guilty! What can I say? I'm randy baby yeah. LOL

Looks like the original posters mind's in the gutter too ;) Else why raise the point!

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Thanks Lin and Everyone for your responses.

8 characters with numbers and symbols and uppercase/lowercase letters in it.

From a Password Security PDF file I have - this is from 2005:

[dtv100]

Okay this is how stupid I am. I don't know if your kidding:) and I thought my pword was long. It's irritating as hell trying to remember it as well. :o

i use a password manager and info is store in a usb stick.

[iogames]

i use a password manager and info is store in a usb stick.

tell me more...

[GSeybold]

i use a password manager and info is store in a sub stick.

TV
I've heard of this. I few of my colleagues highly recommend a password manager.

[Wayne Luke]

I have a password manager included with Norton 360 but don't really use it. Maybe I should start more. The important things like my bank account and Paypal account have external RSA tokens besides the password so not too worried about passwords.

[Cromulent]

Generally speaking my passwords are about 10 alpha numeric characters long using both upper and lower case. I then store all my passwords in a 256 bit encrypted disk image with a 12 alpha numeric password. Plus I have a well setup firewall.

I don't think there is really much more I could appart from physical security devices.

[kevcj]

Usually around 8 characters with a mix of letters, numbers and symbols. Plus, an AR-15 sitting next to my computer desk and my wifes killer attack wiener dog (Dachshund) sleeps next to my computer.

[MTGDarkness]

About 15 inches. The rest of the thread (including OP) was TL;DR.

DISCLAIMER: :p

[dtv100]

tell me more...
i use roboform

[Dean C]

I just hope to god none of you have maximum password attempts turned off. You've drastically reduced the odds of someone guessing your passwords, by revealing the length of your password and what it's composed of :)

[Zachariah]

Binary code has worked for me since 1987.
- 8 to 12 is fine.

[Hasann]

32 cm :D HAHA

[Chris-777]

Get your mind out of the gutter:D ;)

Is there a good length for a real secure admin password? What's the average? Anyone know?

Mine is 34 characters? Is this excessive?

A tad. I wrote a howto a while back that will interest most of the enormous-password types in this thread. I'm Irish, so my password is short. :(

http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=105759

[GSeybold]

Thank You. I'll send your thread to my tech guy:)