Recently I was reviewing the security practices for my users…
I like to get them to change their windows login regularly as it’s used via LDAP etc etc in some cases for loggin into web applications…
Anyway… all the passwords I keep getting from them are very poor, and so I put some guide-lines together for them and thought it’d be fun to share.
I suggest – actually force them – to include characters from all 5 of these rows in passwords…
0123456789
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
@#$%^&*()-_+=
~`[]{}|\:;'<>,.?/
Doing this will increase the time it takes to get cracked… Now… if you want a really really great password do the above and include an alt-character or two! Here is a table of them:
