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  1. The Most Common Password Mistakes (and How to Avoid Them!) - AOL

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    The truth is that a strong password helps to protect your personal data against cybercriminals. ... Creating a password shorter than 10 characters – It used to be that a password was suggested ...

  2. Munged password - Wikipedia

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    Adding a number and/or special character to a password might thwart some simple dictionary attacks.However, common words should still be avoided to the simplicity of automated brute force testing of well known munged variations of the words.

  3. Rainbow table - Wikipedia

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    In the simple case where the reduction function and the hash function have no collision, given a complete rainbow table (one that makes sure to find the corresponding password given any hash) the size of the password set |P|, the time T that had been needed to compute the table, the length of the table L and the average time t needed to find a ...

  4. Strong cryptography - Wikipedia

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    The level of expense required for strong cryptography originally restricted its use to the government and military agencies, [9] until the middle of the 20th century the process of encryption required a lot of human labor and errors (preventing the decryption) were very common, so only a small share of written information could have been encrypted. [10]

  5. Homestar Runner - Wikipedia

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    Homestar Runner was created in Atlanta in 1996 by University of Georgia [5] [6] [7] students Mike Chapman and friend Craig Zobel, who wrote the original picture book, The Homestar Runner Enters the Strongest Man in the World Contest, while working summer jobs surrounding the 1996 Summer Olympics.

  6. Salt (cryptography) - Wikipedia

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    The salt and hash are then stored in the database. To later test if a password a user enters is correct, the same process can be performed on it (appending that user's salt to the password and calculating the resultant hash): if the result does not match the stored hash, it could not have been the correct password that was entered.