I was stumbling around and happened onto this essay by Bruce Schneier claiming that the XKCD password scheme was effectively dead.
Modern password crackers combine different words from their dictionaries: [...]
This is why the oft-cited XKCD scheme for generating passwords -- string toge...
I'm a release manager of a well-known software development company. In the project we work in, we have 1 developer.
Every worker in the project including me (around 20 people, mostly managers) has 2 days of home office per week which they can use whenever without notice.
Our top developer, who...
If you have one developer and twenty(!) managers on this project, your developer is more than likely unable to get any actual work done while in-office. He's been putting in hours at work and then going home to code, got sick of it, and decided to just not donate his free time to the company.
I...
I'm having issues adding an azure linked server to one Sql Server 2005
I've added this server to my SSMS and I can manage it. But if I try to add a linked server to one of my Sql Server 2005 using same parameters I receive this error:
TITLE: Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio ------------------------------
-- Make a link to the cloud EXEC sp_addlinkedserver @server=N'endepro', @srvproduct=N'Azure SQL Db', @provider=N'SQLNCLI', @datasrc=N'myserver.database.windows.net', @catalog='mydb'; GO
--Set up login mapping EXEC sp_addlinkedsrvlogin @rmtsrvname = 'endepro', @useself = 'FALSE', @locallogin=NULL, @rmtuser = 'Adminstrador@myserver.database.windows.net', @rmtpassword = '***********' GO
-- Test the connection sp_testlinkedserver endepro; GO
Msg 18456, Level 14, State 1, Line 19 Login failed for user 'Adminstrador'.
@hot2use I generate phrases with 4 or more words from a custom list of over 13000 words, with a randomly chosen special character at the start, and a randomly chosen number at the end. By random, I mean CRYPT_GEN_RANDOM(), not RAND()! I don't think you could realistically create a rainbow table for the hashes of that many passwords.
I feel very confident that none of my passwords generated with that method could be cracked without state-level-actor effort, even with the actual algorithm and the word-list.
oh, and just to be certain, my hard drives are encrypted with 256-bit encryption, with a long key required to unlock the TPM module at startup.
@AndriyM Thank you for adding that info in an edit. I only wrote an answer out of frustration at the comments and didn't have time to do a complete job.
Wow, pi-hole is amazing. I have two pi-hole VMs setup on my home network now, and they are blocking approximately 50% of all DNS requests from DHCP clients (I'm only pointing DHCP clients at them right now because I don't want to negatively affect anything server-based until I better understand the impacts).
@PaulWhite I was contemplating an answer myself. I'm really glad you posted yours. Mine would probably be talking about Unicode and encodings too much. Yours looks to me very balanced and much more on topic in comparison. (I mean it did before my edit.)
I was stumbling around and happened onto this essay by Bruce Schneier claiming that the XKCD password scheme was effectively dead.
Modern password crackers combine different words from their dictionaries: [...]
This is why the oft-cited XKCD scheme for generating passwords -- string toge...
