{"id":182,"date":"2004-12-03T07:44:46","date_gmt":"2004-12-03T12:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wehuberconsultingllc.com\/myweblog\/?p=182"},"modified":"2004-12-03T08:44:02","modified_gmt":"2004-12-03T13:44:02","slug":"more-goofing-off-with-password-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/2004\/12\/03\/more-goofing-off-with-password-management\/","title":{"rendered":"More Goofing Off with password management"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KeePass got me thinking about using more secure passwords and I suffered the consequences today.  I went back to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diceware.com\/\">Diceware Passphrase Home Page<\/a> and played around. He recommends using dice to pick  4 or 5 random words from a list.The combination of words, a random capitalization, and a random punctuation makes a passphrase that is tough to crack but easy to remember. I wondered why there wasn&#8217;t a computer verion of his algorithm. The problem is that most computer algorithms for random numbers are not adequate for the security task. I decided to overlook this fault and when I found an easy dice routine written Python. With a little more work I created a Python program that simulated his algorithm using the dice routine. I learned a little about Python along the way.<\/p>\n<p>I am not sure whether I want to commit to much stronger passwords. Although I can create random passwords with KeePass, I know I will not remember them and be reliant on KeePass to fill them in.  This requires careful thought about backup and recovery. Windows logins are specially difficult since cut-and-paste is not an option. Hmm&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KeePass got me thinking about using more secure passwords and I suffered the consequences today. I went back to the Diceware Passphrase Home Page and played around. He recommends using dice to pick 4 or 5 random words from a list.The combination of words, a random capitalization, and a random punctuation makes a passphrase that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/2004\/12\/03\/more-goofing-off-with-password-management\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;More Goofing Off with password management&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-source"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4iN3d-2W","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}