The Usability of Passwords
Thomas Baekdal,
Baekdal,
Apr 17, 2011
This is something worth taking note of for the future: "It is 10 times more secure to use 'this is fun' as your password, than 'J4fS<2'." Moreover, it is much more likely that I would remember a phrase like 'this is fun' than some random - or even non-random - string of numbers and characters. But there are other, much more effective, ways to block brute force attacks: "A hacker can hack the password 'alpine fun' in only 2 months if he is able to attack your server 100 times per second. But, with the penalty period and the 5 second delay, the same password can suddenly sustain an attack for 1,889 years." Long enough for most of us. Related: Moodle Security.
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