[CentOS] duqu

Nicolas Thierry-Mieg Nicolas.Thierry-Mieg at imag.fr
Wed Dec 7 09:59:52 UTC 2011


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.



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