Thread: Password Suggestions

^ Shift Key to the rescue

you dont touch type , do you ?

Originally Posted by panchabhut

for Indians its quite easy
take any word from your mother tongue
write the spelling in english
add a special character somewhere in between
add a number also

eg take byomkesh bokshi (the famous detective character)
its a name so should start with a capital
add two special characters
Byom#kesh$Bokshi
add a number also
Byom#kesh$Bokshi1

now lets see who can suggest a way to crack such passwords

Thats a good idea .... That will make a strong password as security experts suggest using words syllables that are not present in English

but you ll be deluding yourself if you think you can make an unbreakable password .... There are ways to break even the strongest password ....... Its just how many days it will take to break it ..... For example a hacker may not like to spend one whole day to break into your mail password to just read your mails .....


How can you break The above password ?

Easy ! ... we just take advantage of a weakness in the Password storing system
Generally passwords are encrypted before storing .... when you enter your password each time this stored password must be decrypted before comparing it with what u entered

If the hacker knows the encryption algorithm that is being used in that particular system he can write a program which identifies each character by simply checking out the time it takes for each character to be decoded ! This will vary between characters

Most companies even banking institutions use standard encryption algorithms such as Triple DES (Data Encryption Standard) , AES (Advanced Encryption Standard), BlowFish etc