Stumpy, I completely agree with you. There is no such thing as an unbreakable password but some are definitely better than others. One of my team members put together an amazing list that incorporates the dictionaries of numerous languages and mixes them up along with numbers and symbols. The list is so long, though, that even at a 4.3 billion wps rate it would still take about ~300 years to crack all possible combinations after the mutation.

I’d like to see this list. There is no such thing as an uncrackable password. Some just take a little longer than others. We (my work) have a system that cracks passwords at over 4.3 billion words per second. A decent laptop can do around 600 WPS. We can crack up to 16 character passwords (every possible combination of letters numbers and symbols) in just days.

After dealing with computer network security for Uncle Sam, I can tell you that there’s still a few (letters/symbols/numbers/special characters) still used by Uncle Sam when they REALLY want to keep prying eyes out, and they still remmain uncrackable.

I was a DA/NA for "Uncle Sam" also. Now am a Penetration Tester (lmgtfy.com/?q=Penetration+Tester) who does a great deal of work for the Gov’t. In over 10 years I’ve never seen/heard of such a list. Care to share?

Well there is and its been out there for quite a few years now. As far as sharing them, as I myself don’t use them (my pad is not capable of generating these characters as there’s no real keyboard with number pad), I simply don’t put sensative info on a networked system.

Former comment posted before finished. Keeping sensative stuff off networked systems is tne best security of all. Some may not understand how one can do that, but we older folks all managed to get through the 80’s just fine, without having to have a cell phone glued to our hands. Back then cell phones were bricks. I’ve managed to live my life without being able to text, etc...at the drop of a dime. And I’ve found that by keeping personal information just that, I don’t have to hide behind complicated passwords that I’ve got to write down in order to remember them. But I’m not about to post any symbols/letters/numbers (including the many languages they may represent) that may continue to be used, as I believe in robust network security for our military members still serving. I’m just saying that unless you’ve got access to a supercomputer, your not going to be able to run your pwssword cracking program and get into anything you want.

oh, and havoc, your right, there’s no such thing as a totally noncrackable password, but, unless your password cracker accounts for every number/character/letter/symbol IN EVERY POSSIBLE LANGUAGE, and you’ve got a computer powerful enough to go through every configuration during our rather short lifespans, then there’s passwords that can certainly

Password is still a proper word. Passphrase is the same thing but with more words. Nitpicking. As for the rest, it’s common for tools to use leet as well so go ahead and replace s with 5 and t with 7. Hackers can do that, too.

Why don’t you just give us your password instead of making it out to be a puzzle from the back of some old ’OMNI’ magazine?

Yeah, i think you are safe for a few years at least :)

until someone reads the sticky note its on ;)