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2. Password cracking - Wikipedia

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   However, asking users to remember a password consisting of a "mix of uppercase and lowercase characters" is similar to asking them to remember a sequence of bits: hard to remember, and only a little bit harder to crack (e.g. only 128 times harder to crack for 7-letter passwords, less if the user simply capitalizes one of the letters).

3. Wikipedia:10,000 most common passwords - Wikipedia

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   The passwords were listed in numerical order, but the blocks of entries and positions of some simpler entries (e.g., "experienced" at 9975 and "doom" at 9983) hint that this may not be a sorted list. To use this list, you can search within your browser (control-F or command-F) to see whether your password comes up, without transmitting your ...

4. Category:Password cracking software - Wikipedia

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5. List of the most common passwords - Wikipedia

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   The Worst Passwords List is an annual list of the 25 most common passwords from each year as produced by internet security firm SplashData. [3] Since 2011, the firm has published the list based on data examined from millions of passwords leaked in data breaches, mostly in North America and Western Europe, over each year.

6. Crack (password software) - Wikipedia

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   Network distributed password cracking; Crack v5.0a [6] released in 2000 did not introduce any new features, but instead concentrated on improving the code and introducing more flexibility, such as the ability to integrate other crypt() variants such as those needed to attack the MD5 password hashes used on more modern Unix, Linux and Windows NT ...

7. Consider changing your password if it made this list of worst ...

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8. List of security hacking incidents - Wikipedia

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   The flaw was discovered when two system programmers were editing at the same time and the temporary files for the message of the day and the password file became swapped, causing the contents of the system CTSS password file to display to any user logging into the system. [8] [9] [10] [11]

9. Brute-force attack - Wikipedia

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   When password-guessing, this method is very fast when used to check all short passwords, but for longer passwords other methods such as the dictionary attack are used because a brute-force search takes too long. Longer passwords, passphrases and keys have more possible values, making them exponentially more difficult to crack than shorter ones ...