MendasDigital
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The time of 8 character passwords is over. A 12-16 character long password is fairly standard these days, but more and more sites are allowing even longer passwords than that. Take Weebly.com for example which, allows up to 160 characters.
Most web browsers these days have a password manager which, takes away the pain of remembering long passwords, but that still leaves the difficulty of coming up with them in the first place. There are websites which will do it for you, but personally I prefer not to rely on 3rd parties.
Below is a simple Bash script I use for generating passwords. It's not pretty, but it works. You'll need to change '10000' to the password length you need. The password will be outputted as plain-text to a file called "password" in the present working directory (eg: your home directory). This script depends on: head, base64, sed, and bash. It also uses the urandom block device.
#!/bin/bash
length='10000'
head -c "$length" /dev/urandom | base64 -w 0 | sed 's/=//g' | sed 's///#/g' | sed 's/+/$/g' | head -c "$length" > password
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You may also like [url=https://jamesdanielmarrsritchey.gitlab.io/ritchey-web-password-generator/]https://jamesdanielmarrsritchey.gitlab.io/ritchey-web-password-generator/ [/url]. The code is easy to vet for logging (or other malicious practices), because there isn't a ton to read through. It allows you to download your password as a text file :).
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. Even if the site's database gets stolen, I doubt attackers will crack that one .
Most of my passwords aren't nearly that long, I even have a couple 6 character passwords, but I do have one that is over 600 characters :). Even if the site's database gets stolen, I doubt attackers will crack that one :P.
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. I'm not sure what the maximum for Twitter is.
My Twitter account password is 100,000 characters long :). I'm not sure what the maximum for Twitter is.
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Plus if the password database is ever stolen, shorter passwords are more likely to be present in an attacker's rainbow table :(.
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I think 160 characters is good for the time being, but I reckon once hackers improve their scripts we will have passwords that will even reach 1000 characters. Password apps will be mandatory when that will inevitably happen. I think I'll just invest in some stocks for KeePass now that I think about it. :D
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