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Yep, unfortunately for passphrases the maximum acceptable password length on web sites tends to be the #1 factor limiting their use. I created sample passphrases and tried them on …

Here you go: https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/62832/is-the-of...

They do try changing the capitalization of only the first character, but also invert the capitalization of all the characters in the supplied password. http://www.zdnet.com/article…

Some of the latest research on this technique: Fast, Lean, and Accurate: Modeling Password Guessability Using Neural Networks https://www.ece.cmu.edu/~lbauer/papers/2016/usenixsec2…

Yes. They didn't need to know his strong password to log on, they just needed access to his mobile phone SMS in order to complete the account recovery process and change his accoun…

It is complete idiocy to use passwords across services. Utter insanity. It is the worst possible practice imaginable, and is never, ever excusable. It's one thing to argue for impr…

Here's what it says in the "How I became a password cracker" article ( http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/03/how-i-became-a-passw... ) on Ars from March: "Dan suggested that, in …

Telling people to use passphrases is a great recommendation, but you still have to spend some time teaching them how to use passphrases effectively. In the article they list severa…

There actually has been research on how to split passwords across multiple servers (one example http://www.passwordresearch.com/papers/paper270.html ), and RSA is currently marketi…

I used to do this same thing and never heard about pen testing firms being sued by their client. Most likely he was spinning a yarn. It is more likely that a security consulting fi…

AJ Jacobs at Esquire magazine wrote about his experience doing something similar back in December: http://www.esquire.com/features/overly-documented-life-0113

That's simply not true. Rainbow tables are still the first choice of many people trying to crack passwords, with brute force or hybrid attacks as a follow up after the common passw…