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How long is your longest password?

Posted: 2004-07-17 04:57am
by Pu-239
Mine is 29 characters long (5 word passphrase).

Posted: 2004-07-17 05:48am
by Robert Treder
Seven characters.

Posted: 2004-07-17 06:14am
by Jaded Masses
f5e8Y4I2hi46zV46L4l so 18 :P (if you're counting unactive passwords)

active I think 10. I would have to dig around to find out what it is though :( I just let mozilla remember.

Posted: 2004-07-17 06:44am
by Vohu Manah
10 characters, though I don't really feel like going though my password book to check completely.

Posted: 2004-07-17 08:26am
by Mr Bean
TheWildNorthAfricandancingCheeseHEADmk2

Joke long password I used to use on my homenetwork drives

Posted: 2004-07-17 08:58am
by Sarevok
All my passwords are no more than 6 letters long.

Posted: 2004-07-17 09:00am
by Bob McDob
None of mine are longer than eight.

Posted: 2004-07-17 09:35am
by Symmetry
8 characters, lower and upper case letters and numbers are the minimum requirements for passwords at the place I work (MIT Media Lab).

Posted: 2004-07-17 12:44pm
by YT300000
19 characters. It's a bunch of random numbers and letters (both lowercase and Caps) with an underscore.

I like using unguessable passwords. Although I shifted this one months ago, and will never use it again.

Posted: 2004-07-17 12:53pm
by Comosicus
The one I use on most web boards is 16 characters long.

Posted: 2004-07-17 01:06pm
by Archaic`
32 digits.

....look, I've had my forum accounts hijacked several times in the past. Even if it hasn't happened for several years, I'm still paranoid.

Posted: 2004-07-17 01:38pm
by Pu-239
Most of my passwords aren't that long- my longest are my GPG key passwords, my computer's login password, and the various servers I connect too (longest).

Posted: 2004-07-17 01:39pm
by Crayz9000
I'm not telling :P

Posted: 2004-07-17 01:55pm
by kojikun
22+. Mixed Alphanumberic, utilizing majuscules and haxx0r. No dictionary words that aren't in haxx0r.

Posted: 2004-07-17 02:44pm
by Einhander Sn0m4n
Hmm, I wonder what the feasibility is of grabbing an MD5sum off a random file and using that as the password? :)

BTW my longest one is to my yahoo mail. ~20 characters...

Posted: 2004-07-17 02:45pm
by General Zod
a simple six digits for me. i'm lazy when it comes to coming up passwords.

Posted: 2004-07-17 02:56pm
by DPDarkPrimus
Nine characters long.

My password method is near impossible to guess (so I won't tell it here), and I never forget them! :)

Posted: 2004-07-17 03:26pm
by Pu-239
Gah... just discovered my 29 character password was pointless, since shell.berlios.de uses SuSE configured with DES passwords, so it only counts the first 8 characters... considering my password is just a string of dictionary words chained together depending on length for security, that's rather bad...

berlios.de is in bad shape... too bad can't move to sourceforge due to the lack of SVN.

Posted: 2004-07-17 03:38pm
by namdoolb
8 digit alphanumeric. It does it's job. Plus I can remember it so I don't have to get any program to do it for me. That IMO is the biggest hole in password based systems.

Posted: 2004-07-17 04:43pm
by Darth Yoshi
10 characters.

Posted: 2004-07-17 05:11pm
by GoldenFalcon
11 characters has been my longest, though in the advent of passphrases I might improvise on that...

Posted: 2004-07-17 06:34pm
by Uraniun235
Longest password is eleven characters long, and any program relying on a dictionary would be useless against it. 8)

(Although I don't understand why everyone just doesn't code such that you can only attempt to logon every five seconds, thus defeating a brute-force approach)

Posted: 2004-07-17 06:40pm
by Lord Revan
My longest password is 12 characters long, I couldn't remember it if was any longer.

Posted: 2004-07-17 06:56pm
by Utsanomiko
For a while I used a password that was 23 characters long. Most of mine tend to be 10-11 long, and never dictionary words.

Posted: 2004-07-17 07:00pm
by muse
Long enough. But how long is you bank card PIN number? Most banks only have 4 digit PINs, but mine lets you have as many digits as you care to remember.