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Tom B

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Nono, what I mean is to use a password comprised of several random ASCII characters - so it will choose punctuation, caps, numbers etc. I've got a program which will generate random passwords if anyone wants a copy.
 

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Cockfosters said:
Nono, what I mean is to use a password comprised of several random ASCII characters - so it will choose punctuation, caps, numbers etc. I've got a program which will generate random passwords if anyone wants a copy.

And so have the people who hack the accounts :roll: :P
 

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They may have, but there are 127 ASCII characters. If you wanted to do a brute force attack on an unknown 6-character password you'd need to do about 4 billion combinations, as opposed to a couple of thousand from a dictionary.
 
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