How passwords and logins work: why a website should not know your password
Password strength: what really makes a password hard to guess
A password with a capital letter, a digit and a symbol looks hard to guess. Yet many of these passwords are among the first guesses of a password cracker. A strong password needs something other than what the sign-up form asks for.
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You choose a new password. The gym's form asks for a capital letter, a digit and a symbol, so you type Sunflower7! with a smile. It looks much harder than before.
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Rono's program does not try passwords in alphabetical order. It starts with what people really pick, and goes down from there.
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