The Password Poll

[+Warwagon MVC]

The Password Poll

After reading the front page article about Xbox Live account being hacked because of weak password, I thought lets make a password poll!

This poll is public and people can see your answers. If that frightens you then you need better passwords and you need to stop using the same password on every site.

For those of you who store your passwords in the web browser, just remember that unless you setup a master password, your passwords are visible in plain text to anyone with access to your browser (At least in the case of Firefox)

For those of you that want an easy to remember password you can always do the following. Pick a word, hell it can even be a word in the dictionary. For this example lets use the word password

Now take the word password add a 1 in front of it and and pad it with 6 Astrix's at the end.

1password******

Steve (The sky is falling) Gibson created a site which lets see how padding a password helps it's strength. Give it a try

https://www.grc.com/haystack.htm

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Making this a public poll is likely going to discourage a lot of people from answering, particularly those with weak passwords, so it'll likely skew the statistics.

[fsX]

The options for the second question are stupid. Why can't I have different passwords and keep them in my head?

[+Warwagon MVC]

The options for the second question are stupid. Why can't I have different passwords and keep them in my head?

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[Phouchg]

I keep them in my head and write them down in a "proprietary" encoded form (yes, I know it violates Kerckhoff's principle, thank you), afterwards putting it into a passworded archive just in case.

And I do have the same password for those sites that force me to register to access some one-time stuff.

Oh, and for the answer to the last question I'd like you all to consider this: http://xkcd.com/936/

[FMH]

My passwords are so difficult, that I had to remember them through rote method. And still forgot several times, so I had to save them to Notepad temporarily. :p

People won't even remember it, even if I recited them it a few times to them. I start with random keywords, and then mutilate them several times.

[mps69]

Can't live without KeepassX, one of the first things I have to install any time I re-build my PC or re-set my phone.

[+Majesticmerc MVC]

I used to have a single 6 character password for everything, but in the past few years I've been migrating towards unique passwords for every website, and keeping the passwords inside a Keepass database. I've got a copy synced with my phone and laptop so I can access my passwords whereever I go. I've still got a few websites using my old password, but in general these are sites that I don't really care if I get hacked (defunct and empty hotmail accounts, etc). In general, I'll aim for >125 bit entropy with my password generator, which makes my passwords basically unguessable.

[Muhammad Farrukh]

I only have one password, throughout the internet. :D

Its also an easy one, but I haven't got any problem as of yet

[Phouchg]

I only have one password, throughout the internet. :D

Its also an easy one, but I haven't got any problem as of yet

[Muhammad Farrukh]

:laugh:

[subcld]

different password for different sites

[firey]

I have 4 passwords, my main one is in a dictionary but it's spelt wrong.

[123456789A]

I just set all my passwords as "incorrect" so that way if I ever forget it, the computer tells me what my password is.

[Kreuger]

Of the first question, I can't pick any. I don't have just one and I don't mostly use just one with a few others and I also don't use a different one on every site.

[+Warwagon MVC]

Of the first question, I can't pick any. I don't have just one and I don't mostly use just one with a few others and I also don't use a different one on every site.

You motivated me to add a 4th answer.

[Sir Topham Hatt]

Mostly have one or two main passwords. Email accounts and such have different much stronger passwords.

I write them in a text document stored somewhere on the PC (for the sites I don't visit very often, a pool of around 20 sites I just remember).

They are in the dictionary, but I have added numbers and such to them.

[Kreuger]

You motivated me to add a 4th answer.

I like turtles!

[Krome]

I like turtles with a canon on top... Dam Luxon has them...