[seqfan] Re: Bad sequences for passwords

[Charles Greathouse]

Presumably any sequence in the OEIS would be a bad choice; a computer
could iterate through all of them pretty quickly.  I guess that
depends on whether you have the hash (and can check passwords
directly) or only access to a server (in which case it will presumably
limit you to just a few guesses).

Charles Greathouse
Analyst/Programmer
Case Western Reserve University

On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 10:16 AM, Alonso Del Arte
<alonso.delarte at gmail.com> wrote:
> I vaguely remember in the *Da Vinci Code* that the character played by Tom
> Hanks guessed a password that was based on the Fibonacci numbers (11235813,
> if I recall correctly).
>
> In real life, the Mac OS X Password Assistant recommends against passwords
> like 123456789 or 321654987 ("This is too simplistic or systematic") but
> has no objection to 2357111317192329 or 024681012141618.
>
> What would be some other bad sequences to use for passwords?
>
> Al
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