Micah lee, a technology expert, has developed a method of procuring a password that would be almost impossible to crack for the brightest hackers and could even bring down NSA to its knees.
What is password
its noun
A secret word or phrase that must be used to gain admission to a place:
‘if you don't know the password you can't come in’
A string of characters that allows access to a computer, interface, or system:
‘each user has a password in order to log on to the network’
OUR ONLINE IDENTITY
Passwords are used for virtually everything we do online. Passwords protect our identities on websites, discussion groups, e-mail accounts and more. Many family computers with multiple user accounts employ passwords. They are also used for bank transactions and making secure purchases. With all of this sensitive data at stake, creating good passwords is very important to prevent identity theft.
PASSWORD CRACKING METHODS
Mostly these are some methods used by hackers and crackers to idebntify your password.
1. Dictionary attack
2. Brute force attack
3. Rainbow table attack
4. Phishing
5. Social engineering
Strong password is myth
you create a password using numbers ,character,and special symbol still you have a huge chances of password losses becoz we follow traditional methods by which we can easily remember our password ,like Birth-days,crush-name , mobile numbers etc..
which is quite easy to crack.
The difference between password and passphrase
Just to put everyone on the same page, a password as you know it is typically composed of not more than 10 letters or symbols, or a combination of both. It could be a string of random symbols such as “B@3!&O$$” or just a lousy word like “yourname”, or a combination of both such as “sh@tup!”.
A passphrase can also contain symbols, and does not have to be a proper sentence or grammatically correct. The main difference of the two is that passwords do not have spaces while passphrases have spaces and are longer than any random string of letters.
So why is passphrase better than passwords?
1)Passphrases are easier to remember
2)Passwords are relatively easy to guess or crack
3)Satisfies complex rules easily.
4)Major OS and applications supports passphrase.
5)Passphrases are next to impossible to crack
Lee terms it as Diceware technique, based on Diceware word list comprising of 7,776 English words each corresponding to a five digit number. Now just roll your dice and take five random numbers. The words generated from the list would be the first word of your passphrase. Repeat it 5 or 7 times to be on the safer side and make the best passphrase for yourself..
As per Lee’s calculations
Using a seven-word passphrase, there’s only a one in 1,719,070,799,748,422,591,028,658,176 chance that someone could randomly pick your passphrase from the Diceware word list. Imagining that a computer is making one billion guesses per second of your password- it would still take an average of 27 million years for them to guess your passphrase.
This mathematical approach works on the principle of entropy or randomness, which creates more than a trillion possibilities for the hackers to guess the right passwords.
Well, this a long time to keep one’s documents safe. During the times when the password cracking and cyber security are of utmost importance, Micah Lee brings a sigh of relief to the people.
Examples of passphrases
1) prayer enduring merge muscle consular seafarer
2) trowel valvate signora wringer bilander jog
3) cumin bullhorn carboxyl res recap cachucha
4) bargeman landing farad kaffiyeh eclectic torero
5) crusted engross kinsfolk mill wombat cornute
6) jazzy model ivy engraft centum cipher
7) liquor dead torsi oviduct prize ripplet
8) rancher scuttle chlorous fervor despatch cresset
9) shrew hah dree cutty dhole floruit
10) frow noir zamia empty torsk aerogram
11) aggrade unstable header modest vehement ovenware
12) replevy catnap bolivar liqueur hyoid pommel
13) teach yeomanry chipping elapse peanuts periapt
14) twibill wert crappie octad otiose astute
15) consist widgeon plumbum delirium lentigo reft
16) ostiary decay sisterly lacewing masque dutiful
17) evenings cola floccus li genesis shelduck
18) biomass outlet such midget felloe platina
19) thereof teepee euphroe coquetry marge myelitis
20) scallion refluent plumber hardness educator snuffy
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