Secure and complicated password? Passprhase is recommended
Nel 2003 il teorico Bill Burr, venne incaricato dal National Institute of Standards and Technology a compiere studi in merito alle password. Come risultato creò quella che vene definita “ricetta” per la password perfetta, ovvero una guida di otto pagine su ottenere password complicate da indovinare e soprattutto sicure.
Among the main recommendations was that of creating passwords with unusual characters, numbers, lowercase and uppercase letters, and the obligation to change it every 90 days or so. His "recipe", in a short time, became a practice for almost all online companies and his rules for creating secure passwords have become virtually ubiquitous.
The theorist Burr, during an interview for the Wall Street Journal, regrets the advice given, arguing that creating standards to generate strong passwords will always have in vain results. For convenience, people will continue to use access keys that a hacker through the use of particular software will be able to decrypt in a matter of minutes.
Obviously we are not talking about simple sequences of numbers or letters, but very complex passwords to guess!
Using Passphrases could be a great solution
Fourteen years after the document drafted by Bill Burr, a new updated version has been announced that sets aside the old "recipe". To obtain a secure password, Paul Grassi drafted the new version of the document, inviting the use of passphrases, a set of words or alphanumeric strings capable of generating passwords that are much longer and more complex than those commonly used today.
According to a study by Randall Munroe, it takes a hacker about three days to guess a password with special characters, while it takes more than 550 years to discover a passphrase consisting of four random words.
