John Sutter of CNN.com wrote “Say goodbye to those wimpy, eight-letter passwords. The 12-character era of online security is upon us, according to a report published this [month] by the Georgia Institute of Technology. The researchers used clusters of graphics cards to crack eight-character passwords in less than two hours. But when the researchers applied that same processing power to 12-character passwords, they found it would take 17,134 years to make them snap.” Suggestions:
– Try password sentences. “I have two kids: Jack and Jill.”
– “It’s best to use the longest and most complex password a site will allow. … For example, if a website will let you create a password with non-letter characters – like @y;}v%W$\5\ – then you should do so.”
– Don’t use real words or logical combinations of letters.
