{"id":5357,"date":"2019-09-23T20:53:24","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T20:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=5357"},"modified":"2019-09-23T20:53:24","modified_gmt":"2019-09-23T20:53:24","slug":"new-comment-on-reddit-90","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=5357","title":{"rendered":"New comment on reddit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"md\">\n<p>The math checks out<\/p>\n<p>Except if it doesn&#39;t<\/p>\n<p>If <em>you<\/em> are coming up with <em>your own<\/em> &quot;random&quot; passphrases, you are going to be cracked more-or-less instantly<\/p>\n<p>Because you are not good at doing random things<\/p>\n<p>But if you select those words truly (or close enough to truly that it doesn&#39;t really matter how untrue it is) randomly from a decently-large word list, then you don&#39;t know if the 3 words are &quot;aibe&quot; or &quot;schoolteacherflibbertigibbetabsquatulating&quot;<\/p>\n<p>In fact, the <em>whole point<\/em> of using hash functions on passwords, and then storing <em>those<\/em> instead of the real password, is that the <em>length<\/em> every <strong>every password<\/strong> is &quot;identical&quot; &#8211; they&#39;re <em>all<\/em> 512 bits long (or however long the hash generates)<\/p>\n<p>Add to this the salting that [sane] systems do, and <em>my<\/em> &quot;aibe&quot; is different from <em>your<\/em> &quot;aibe&quot;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>September 23, 2019 at 03:46PM<br \/>\nvia reddit https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/security\/comments\/d8bd27\/passwords_using_3_random_words_is_a_really_bad\/f195ahf?utm_source=ifttt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The math checks out Except if it doesn&#39;t If you are coming up with your own &quot;random&quot; passphrases, you are going to be cracked more-or-less instantly Because you are not good at doing random things But if you select those words truly (or close enough to truly that it doesn&#39;t really matter how untrue it &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=5357\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New comment on reddit<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[972],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-5357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blih","tag-reddit"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5358,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5357\/revisions\/5358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5357"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=5357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}