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The end of password cleverness

Charlie Bess| September 1, 2012
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security compromize.pngLast week on the Security Now podcast there was an episode about : The Death of "Clever". This would be a good one to listen to for anyone who believes they are being clever about creating passwords using tricks like 3 for E or 0 for o, as well as other techniques to create passwords.

 

There are numerous techniques used to crack passwords and this episode goes into the security issues, in depth.

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  • Steve Simske is an HP Fellow and Director in the Printing and Content Delivery Lab in Hewlett-Packard Labs, and is the Director and Chief Technologist for the HP Labs Security Printing and Imaging program.
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