How long is your longest password?

Pu-239 · Post by **Pu-239** » 2004-07-17 04:57am

Mine is 29 characters long (5 word passphrase).

Robert Treder · Post by **Robert Treder** » 2004-07-17 05:48am

Seven characters.

Jaded Masses · Post by **Jaded Masses** » 2004-07-17 06:14am

f5e8Y4I2hi46zV46L4l so 18

(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.

Vohu Manah · Post by **Vohu Manah** » 2004-07-17 06:44am

10 characters, though I don't really feel like going though my password book to check completely.

Post by **Mr Bean** » 2004-07-17 08:26am

TheWildNorthAfricandancingCheeseHEADmk2

Joke long password I used to use on my homenetwork drives

Sarevok · Post by **Sarevok** » 2004-07-17 08:58am

All my passwords are no more than 6 letters long.

Bob McDob · Post by **Bob McDob** » 2004-07-17 09:00am

None of mine are longer than eight.

Symmetry · Post by **Symmetry** » 2004-07-17 09:35am

8 characters, lower and upper case letters and numbers are the minimum requirements for passwords at the place I work (MIT Media Lab).

YT300000 · Post by **YT300000** » 2004-07-17 12:44pm

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.

Comosicus · Post by **Comosicus** » 2004-07-17 12:53pm

The one I use on most web boards is 16 characters long.

Archaic` · Post by **Archaic`** » 2004-07-17 01:06pm

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.

Pu-239 · Post by **Pu-239** » 2004-07-17 01:38pm

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).

Crayz9000 · Post by **Crayz9000** » 2004-07-17 01:39pm

I'm not telling

kojikun · Post by **kojikun** » 2004-07-17 01:55pm

22+. Mixed Alphanumberic, utilizing majuscules and haxx0r. No dictionary words that aren't in haxx0r.

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2004-07-17 02:44pm

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...

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2004-07-17 02:45pm

a simple six digits for me. i'm lazy when it comes to coming up passwords.

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2004-07-17 02:56pm

Nine characters long.

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

Pu-239 · Post by **Pu-239** » 2004-07-17 03:26pm

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.

namdoolb · Post by **namdoolb** » 2004-07-17 03:38pm

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.

Darth Yoshi · Post by **Darth Yoshi** » 2004-07-17 04:43pm

10 characters.

GoldenFalcon · Post by **GoldenFalcon** » 2004-07-17 05:11pm

11 characters has been my longest, though in the advent of passphrases I might improvise on that...

Uraniun235 · Post by **Uraniun235** » 2004-07-17 06:34pm

Longest password is eleven characters long, and any program relying on a dictionary would be useless against it.

(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)

Lord Revan · Post by **Lord Revan** » 2004-07-17 06:40pm

My longest password is 12 characters long, I couldn't remember it if was any longer.

Utsanomiko · Post by **Utsanomiko** » 2004-07-17 06:56pm

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.

muse · Post by **muse** » 2004-07-17 07:00pm

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.