Uncrackable Passwords

[Jon]

Actually, I could see your idea perhaps being combined with a keyboard
overlay + custom keyboard layout and / or a "plugin usb password typer" and
proving effective.

*sigh* I give all my best ideas away for free

Jon

 

[kurttrail]

As a matter of fact we are a non-profit organization. I forgot to
mention that, but yes, we most certainly aren't commercial.
All our material is free, some of it open source, most of it
licensed under Creative Commons.

LOL! Who cares! This is unsolicited spam. And you are a spammer.
Period!

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And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'."

 

[Key Pounder]

David Candy wrote:
| That will insert the OEM character. 0230 will insert the ANSI character.
| Only codes higher than 255 will insert the unicode character.
| 230 = µ
| 0230 = æ
|
| Understand 0 to 127 is the same in OEM or ANSI. 0 to 255 is the same in
| ANSI or Unicode. At least in English.
|| Read the PDF
|| I cannot show you here, because Outlook Express is an ancient program,
|| but open up Wordpad, and hold down the left alt, and then type 230 on
|| the num pad, then let go of alt.
|| You will get a unicode character.
|| Same for other keycombos
||
|| ||| ???
||| |||| ROFL...
||||
|||| well, alt+numpad does the trick.. No purchase necessary
||||
|||| |||||
||||| |||||| Hi all,
|||||| For those of you paranoid about their security, this is the perfect
|||||| document
|||||| for you. My company just finished publishing this whitepaper, and
|||||| we've launched it
|||||| on our forums in hopes that it will make your PC more secure. As a
|||||| matter of
|||||| fact, we can guarantee it will!
||||||
|||||| Abstract:
|||||| "Every password today, no matter for what application or what it
|||||| secures, is
|||||| built on a base of 68 "letters" or characters. Some applications use
|||||| less,
|||||| but none use more. Brute force password cracking has become more and
|||||| more
|||||| viable due to the exponentially increasing power of individual
|||||| machines and
|||||| the even greater power of the government's cluster servers, making it
|||||| now an
|||||| easy and fast way of recovering any password.
||||||
|||||| But there is a solution. There are more than 1,000 other letters that
|||||| no one
|||||| knows about! With these extra letters, it is possible to make
|||||| passwords that
|||||| are, for all practical purposes, uncrackable!"
||||||
|||||| Link: http://www.neosmart.net/forums/index.php?gettopic=10
||||||
|||||| *PS If you like it, please register and leave a comment... we could
|||||| do with
|||||| the traffic
||||||
|||||
||||| You'll have to bring out an ultra big keyboard for it too
|||||
||||| Jon

?h!

 

[Key Pounder]

kurttrail wrote:
| Computer Guru wrote:
|
|| As a matter of fact we are a non-profit organization. I forgot to
|| mention that, but yes, we most certainly aren't commercial.
|| All our material is free, some of it open source, most of it
|| licensed under Creative Commons.
|
| LOL! Who cares! This is unsolicited spam. And you are a spammer.
| Period!

At least I learned ½ a thing from the thread. Only half 'cause I learned it
long ago but had long forgotten.

 

[All Things Mopar]

Today Computer Guru commented courteously on the subject at
hand

Hi all,
For those of you paranoid about their security, this is the
perfect document for you. My company just finished
publishing this whitepaper, and we've launched it
on our forums in hopes that it will make your PC more
secure. As a matter of fact, we can guarantee it will!

Abstract:
"Every password today, no matter for what application or
what it secures, is built on a base of 68 "letters" or
characters. Some applications use less, but none use more.
Brute force password cracking has become more and more
viable due to the exponentially increasing power of
individual machines and the even greater power of the
government's cluster servers, making it now an easy and
fast way of recovering any password.

But there is a solution. There are more than 1,000 other
letters that no one knows about! With these extra letters,
it is possible to make passwords that are, for all
practical purposes, uncrackable!"

Link: http://www.neosmart.net/forums/index.php?gettopic=10

*PS If you like it, please register and leave a comment...
we could do with the traffic

What you do with any automated brute force method if the O/S
has a limit on attempts before it locks out the cracker or the
legit owner has installed even mildly sophisticated attempt
limited utilities?

 

[All Things Mopar]

Today David Candy commented courteously on the subject at
hand

You just need a manual next to the computer telling one how
to enter all these characters. Brute force tend to reley on
words not characters. Military have computers that check
passwords against all known words in any language - if it
matches (even partially) a word you may not use it. A brute
force attack on windows has three attempts.

If you have attempt limit turned on, as I alluded to in an
earlier post.

But, even a simple PW like "suzisweethips" can be made more than
twice as uncrackable by the simple expediant of putting even one
number in front of it. But, home users I know use short, easy-to
-crack but easy-to-remember PWs for everything because typing in
more than 8-12 characters is more and more a PITA as the number
goes up, and the the PITA level goes astronmical if you mix
upper and lower case, numbers, and special characters.

 

[Computer Guru]

It works because of the nature of the OS.
It doesn't try to log in that many times, all systems have a lockout.
What password crackers do is they find the encrypted password off the hard
disk, and then compare encryptiny passwords one at a time. that's why its so
dangerous

 

[Bob I]

And THAT is the reason Keyloggers exist.

It works because of the nature of the OS.
It doesn't try to log in that many times, all systems have a lockout.
What password crackers do is they find the encrypted password off the hard
disk, and then compare encryptiny passwords one at a time. that's why its so
dangerous

 

[Lindsay]

Still, if I've learnt one thing from this Computer Guru chappy (or more
accurately David Candy) is how to enter those characters such as: ¼ ½ ¾
without resorting to the character map each time.