passwords and trust and randomness
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Joshua Thorp
Jun 14, 2012, 2:01:46 PM6/14/12
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I use one of the password vault applications and it has a random password generator.
So what am I to make of this password it just gave me?
3r5g6D7tS9UxWeakTeav
Shrug it off as meaningless random chance?
--joshua
Gary Lee Nelson
Jun 14, 2012, 2:08:45 PM6/14/12
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monkeys typing?
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Joshua Thorp
Jun 14, 2012, 2:26:54 PM6/14/12
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Yes monkeys typing, I know that is what I am supposed to think and to some extent I must…
This goes to humans having a hard time telling what random should look like:
14159267
or
11111138
which is more random? Depends on the process that created the string I guess. Neither of these count cause they came from my feeble head that doesn't do random.
I think most words wouldn't bother me in a random string, but 'Tea' makes me think of Douglas Adams's gods -- beware the god of entropy... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Long_Dark_Tea-Time_of_the_Soul
--joshua
Gary Lee Nelson
Jun 14, 2012, 2:34:09 PM6/14/12
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Greg Sonnenfeld
Jun 14, 2012, 3:24:51 PM6/14/12
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WeakTea?
I've heard that expression before. Its obviously hackers intercepting
your password and commenting on the applications security level.
:P
Greg Sonnenfeld
“Two h's walk into a bar. The first one says, "What is this? Some kind
of physics joke?”
I've heard that expression before. Its obviously hackers intercepting
your password and commenting on the applications security level.
:P
Greg Sonnenfeld
“Two h's walk into a bar. The first one says, "What is this? Some kind
of physics joke?”
Jon Bringhurst
Jun 14, 2012, 3:36:19 PM6/14/12
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Considering that weaktea is the name of a block cipher, and that the odd
bits start after the 96th bit boundary (which has some odd properties...
2^5*3), I'd be willing to bet that this is a bug in the password generator.
It's probably paranoid, but personally, I wouldn't trust passwords
generated on that machine with the entropy source that's being used in
this case.
-Jon
bits start after the 96th bit boundary (which has some odd properties...
2^5*3), I'd be willing to bet that this is a bug in the password generator.
It's probably paranoid, but personally, I wouldn't trust passwords
generated on that machine with the entropy source that's being used in
this case.
-Jon
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