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Title: The End of Passphrase Passwords?
Post by: HCK on August 27, 2013, 11:01:04 pm
The End of Passphrase Passwords?
      


For those of you who are fans of the webcomic xkcd, you may recall the suggestion to use passphrases (such as “correct horse battery staple”) rather than hard-to-remember gibberish passwords. Well, it would appear that the utility of that suggestion is coming to an end. A freely available password-cracking tool has just come out with [...]
      

http://www.intego.com/mac-security-blog/the-end-of-passphrase-passwords/