{"id":29,"date":"2011-09-01T14:04:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-01T14:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anjo.pt\/wp\/keyword-oracle\/2011\/09\/01\/complex-passwords\/"},"modified":"2015-11-17T20:27:24","modified_gmt":"2015-11-17T19:27:24","slug":"complex-passwords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anjo.pt\/keyword-oracle\/2011\/09\/01\/complex-passwords\/","title":{"rendered":"Complex passwords"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My company wants me to change my password to a more complex one.<\/p>\n<p>Few days ago I saw a nice cartoon about &#8216;password strength&#8217;: <a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/936\/\">http:\/\/xkcd.com\/936\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today I checked this Microsoft Security website to see how strong a password is: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/security\/pc-security\/password-checker.aspx\">https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/security\/pc-security\/password-checker.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I tried with the password: <span style=\"color: #b45f06; font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;,Courier,monospace;\">aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa<\/span><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;,Courier,monospace;\"> <\/span>(about 28 times letter &#8216;a&#8217;). 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Few days ago I saw a nice cartoon about &#8216;password strength&#8217;: http:\/\/xkcd.com\/936\/ Today I checked this Microsoft Security website to see how strong a password is: https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/security\/pc-security\/password-checker.aspx I tried with the password: aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa (about 28 times letter &#8216;a&#8217;). The result was:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-29","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-oracle","7":"category-security","8":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anjo.pt\/keyword-oracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anjo.pt\/keyword-oracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anjo.pt\/keyword-oracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anjo.pt\/keyword-oracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anjo.pt\/keyword-oracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/anjo.pt\/keyword-oracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173,"href":"https:\/\/anjo.pt\/keyword-oracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions\/173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anjo.pt\/keyword-oracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anjo.pt\/keyword-oracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anjo.pt\/keyword-oracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}