Lamar Owen wrote: > On Tuesday, December 06, 2011 04:58:42 PM Lamar Owen wrote: >> I happen to have a copy of an older brute-forcer dictionary here (somewhere) and it's very large and has lots of very secure-seeming passwords in it. > > I ran down the copy I have; here's an excerpt of one of the dictionaries: > ++++++++ > root:P7zkJTma > root:5D8DY22 > root:mc99ZR34Z > root:IVEUFc > root:JJc9DicA > root:zzzzzzz > root:4m3ric4n > root:3nglish > root:g0v3rm3nt > root:4zur3 > root:bl4ck > root:blu3 > root:br0wn > root:cy4n > root:crims0n > root:d4rkblu3 > root:d4rk > root:g0ld > ++++++++ > > Yeah, some of those would ordinarily be relatively secure-seeming passwords. alphanumeric only isn't so secure-seeming is it? Is this for admins who log in with a cell phone instead of a real keyboard? ;-) seriously: I thought the consensus was that a secure password should contain at least one or more non-alphanumeric characters.