Secure Password Analysis and Recommendations

Submitted by jbreland on Thu, 01/11/2007 - 14:09

Security guru Bruce Schneier has written a rather fascinating article on password composition and cracking. Security professionals in general would be interested in this, but in truth anyone using computer systems (read: you) should read and pay attention to this article.

Interesting statistics from the article: 24% of all analyzed passwords are recovered within minutes; up to 65% are cracked within one month.

You can read the full article at this link:
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/01/choosing_secure.html