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Today I had to type the same password to connect to a WPA2-secured WiFi network several times, and got really annoyed with the length of the password. Especially since it is just a phrase repeated twice.
The amount of protection offered by implementing a password in any system will always vary in direct proportion to the password complexity, and the effort taken to protect that password. Wireless networks are no exception.
Where a strong hashing mechanism is in use, longer and more complex passwords will almost invariably put you in a better security posture. I strongly suggest you read some of the other passwords questions we have here. One of particular interest is:
It should be noted though, that a WPA2 network's PSK is only effective where WPS is either disabled or unsupported on the AP. Recent side-channel attacks allow an attacker to break WPS in a relatively short time, and gather the WPA2 PSK directly from the AP without having to actually crack the PSK itself.
Suggest I have a key of three letters and I can process about 5 words a second to the AP (fictional). One word can consist of 24 letters and 10 numbers. So your possibilities are (24+10)^3 = 39304. If we add one letter we get:(24+10)^4 = 1336336 possibilities. It would take 37 times longer to process those possibilities.
This post talks about brute-forcing a WPA password. The short answer is: yes, it is more secure to have a longer password. The question is the relative convenience of have a shorter password with a more secure one - if it's your home wifi, you probably don't need a crazy long password, but if it's something more important, you should think twice about it.
Generally speaking yes, however I reccomend never using words in your password and implimenting a MAC address filter. Is this still possible to penetrate? Yes, but in most instances who would want to bother with a long password and MAC address filtering. Then again there is the WiFi Pineapple: or 4G dongles are much more secure, but again everything depends on the full application and budget.
The answers have explained most already. In practice, how long does it need to be? Probably longer than what the average person uses in practice, but less than some of the suggestions seen on the web. I set out to find out a reasonably secure size that is still easy enough to handle. Secure enough for me would be that an adversary with access to 10 top of the range PCs in 5 years (the time I will keep the password for) will still only have a 2% chance of cracking the password in 1 month. Adjust the numbers as you please. A very powerful adversary may have access to more computing power but will be unlikely to use it for a whole month.
So if you use a truly random passphrase, you can get away with 12 lower-case letters or 9-10 alphanumeric characters (upper and lowers case letters plus digits). I like lower-case letters as you can type those into your mobile device easily. But there is absolutely no need to use overly complex, 50 character passphrases that utilise all kinds of special characters.
In general, yes! It is more secure to have a longer password since the more characters the password has, complexity is added thus making it harder for hackers to guess it using some of the tools available.
blowfish _(cipher) and AES _(cipher) (used by default since LibreOffice 3.5) are both secure. There is no known vulnerability. In other words: the only way to decrypt the document is to supply the correct password.
I initiated the thread "How to crack a PW in LO?# mentioned in the answer of Jean-Baptiste Faure. However I am not yet sure how secured LibO files are. It seems to me that there is no encryption, thus brute force attack can be successful if there is enough time to attack the password.
I am using RightNote from
It has a 128-bit encryption and 2 passwords. 128-bit is, as far as I know, currently the industry standard. I added a Calc file into a RightNote file. Works fine and is fast.
Another alternative is an information containing file in a winzip archive with an 256 bit encryption. However, as far as I remember each opening of the winzip archive creates an unprotected copy of the information containing files in the Temp folder.
In the meantime I cracked the password protected EXCEL file with a small freeware application in less than 5 min, which I found in the Internet. So far I have not found yet a SW which cracks a LibO file.
I general I can say, that security is never 100%. Each password can be cracked if there is enough computing power and speed. Security is never 100 % but with 128 of 256 bit encryption one can achieve a very high security.
(continue) So there is only the resources (and time witch is also a resource) and a will that is needed to crack a password. Some government agencies have a lot of computer power, so protecting against them is almost impossible. As referred by @cloph in this thread, LibreOffice is using strong algorithm. This means that the only real crack of password is brute force attack. On the other hand if there is weak algorithm used for encrypt data, there can be significantly less password try and match
(continue) then using brute force attack. Any algorithm to decrypt data that can get to the correct password in less then brute force attack is by cryptology standards taken as broken = weak algorithm. Conclusion: LibreOffice is using strong algorithm, so the only known way to brake a password is using brute force attack. The safety of password protection algorithm is entirely dependent on using strong passwords and of course protecting the file not to get into the hands of non-authorized person
moral of the story: using encryption is worthless if LO is saving a duplicate image somewhere else. Be wary of any software that could have bugs that SAVE UNENCRYPTED IMAGES OF ENCRYPTED FILES because it means your data was not being quarantined properly throughout the editing process. I have not yet looked for proof of this, but there could reasonably be other temp(autosave, clipboard, etc) files holding parts of your data.
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