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Topic: Gox password security (Read 786 times)

full member
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January 11, 2012, 06:22:18 PM
#5
I'll second Notme with this piece by xkcd:


(http://xkcd.com/936/)
legendary
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January 11, 2012, 05:57:37 PM
#4
Anyone else think its laughable that the MtGox support websites password security is really strict and requires letters, (including a capital), numbers, non alphanumeric character and minimum length.... whereas the actual mtgox trading login only requires letters, numbers and a min length.

/minirant

Most of these restrictions are working against security.  The best method is to have more bits.

"It turns out that long sentences make really good passwords that are easy to remember" is much harder to crack than "8$nfK/3".
legendary
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howdy
January 11, 2012, 05:52:51 PM
#3

bacon and eggs dear.
legendary
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Bitcoin: An Idea Worth Spending
January 10, 2012, 07:38:01 PM
#2
Anyone else think its laughable that the MtGox support websites password security is really strict and requires letters, (including a capital), numbers, non alphanumeric character and minimum length.... whereas the actual mtgox trading login only requires letters, numbers and a min length.

/minirant

I wonder if that's because one is salted, whereas the other is peppered.
donator
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January 10, 2012, 07:35:55 PM
#1
Anyone else think its laughable that the MtGox support websites password security is really strict and requires letters, (including a capital), numbers, non alphanumeric character and minimum length.... whereas the actual mtgox trading login only requires letters, numbers and a min length.

/minirant
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