Password security advice
 

http://www.digit4l.net/2010/05/when-in-doubt-md5-it/

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Re: Password security advice
 

not so good for sites that only allow ~12 characters max on passwords though, which in my experience is a vast number of them. MD5 hashes are 32 character hex expressions. this also means that it will not include symbols, only alpha-numeric.

Re: Password security advice
 

Online security is always an issue, there are a lot of people out there that use family names or birthdays to secure things like online banking etc. Common sense does not seem to rule, I even know someone that secured their facebook account with details published on their profile and then they wondered how it had been compromised!

Re: Password security advice
 

Two jobs back we had to change our passwords every month and we couldn't use a previous one (MOD security).

So I used this method "Password01", then every month uped the number by 1.

My last job was the password killer of all killers, I had 32 website that I used, thank god that only a few had a time limit on the password.

For that job I got KeePass password manager.

Re: Password security advice
 

what happens if you forget the password? :confused:

Re: Password security advice
 

use something like keypass to store them

Re: Password security advice
 

Of course, this will not protect against the more sophisticated network capture trojans, but should protect against basic keylogging trojans which only watch the memory for keypresses.

It's another line of defense, so if you have anything worth protecting (i.e. your personal email account) then do it.