From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@labs.coraid.com>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] offered without comment or judgement
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 14:57:23 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1449883d7baedf2bc03d0857a73b6a98@coraid.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimBvFiV09MQcUpKRZoExcHcVPUn1oFngEHXOnRv@mail.gmail.com>
> > I don't understand why modern security systems have an upper limit on passphrase length.
>
> Because people can't remember passwords, and companies don't like
> employing full-time password changers.
i don't understand this comment. the length of a password
is only vaguely related to memorability. long english phrases
are easy to remember. unfortunately, they are also easy to
harvest automaticly, so "four score and seven years ago" might
be a bad password.
- erik
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-29 18:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-28 22:32 ron minnich
2010-06-28 23:10 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2010-06-29 2:28 ` Wes Kussmaul
2010-06-29 2:46 ` Stanley Lieber
2010-06-29 17:13 ` Wes Kussmaul
2010-06-29 17:27 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2010-06-29 18:30 ` Steve Simon
2010-06-29 18:41 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2010-06-29 18:57 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2010-06-29 19:13 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2010-06-29 19:32 ` erik quanstrom
2010-06-29 20:00 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2010-06-30 11:28 ` erik quanstrom
2010-06-30 15:22 ` Wes Kussmaul
2010-06-30 16:22 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2010-06-29 20:09 ` Wes Kussmaul
2010-06-29 21:34 ` Steve Simon
2010-06-29 19:19 ` Wes Kussmaul
2010-06-29 3:46 ` erik quanstrom
2010-06-29 8:07 ` Akshat Kumar
2010-06-29 9:14 ` hiro
2010-06-29 9:17 ` erik quanstrom
2010-06-29 19:59 ` ron minnich
2010-06-29 13:43 ` Gabriel Díaz
2010-06-29 16:54 ` hiro
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