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Released: June 12, 2011
Guard That Password (and Make Sure It’s Encrypted)
Source: Randall Stross - New York Times
For a pretty strong password, think 10. If your password contains 10 characters, you should be able to sleep well at night — perhaps for 19.24 years. That’s how long it would take hackers to try every combination of 10 characters, assuming that the password is encrypted and that the hackers have enough computing power to mount a 100-billion-guesses-a-second effort to break the encryption. But if your user names and passwords are sitting unencrypted on a server, you may not be able to sleep at all if you start contemplating the potential havoc ahead.Read Full Article: Guard That Password (and Make Sure It’s Encrypted)
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