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On 23/04/2008, at 11:29 AM, Mike Cunningham wrote:
Don't you think the password crackers have figure out the number for vowel trick and are using those variations in dictionary attacks? I don't think a password of f1shh3ad is any more secure anymore than fishhead. I like passphrases in mixed case for those accounts that need the highest security

Whether they have figured it out or not is immaterial. It will take more attempts to brute-force crack a password that omits vowels or replaces them with numbers than to crack complete words.

Whether that adds much to the elapsed time of a brute-force attack given the current desktop power is a separate argument.

Seems to me the purpose of all password rules is not to ensure "uncrackable" passwords but rather to ensure less easily "guessable" ones. It is primarily an audit-satisfaction tool.

Given enough time, enough CPU, and enough reason, probably anything is crackable--certainly any encryption to which we have access. You don't think the US Govt. allowed 128-bit encryption to all their "friends" because they CAN'T crack it in a reasonable time do you?

Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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