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

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    For example, passwords like S@lly123 or B*bby226 aren’t going to be strong enough to thwart a hacker. Sharing your password – It probably goes without saying that passwords shouldn’t be ...

  3. Password strength - Wikipedia

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    Password strength is a measure of the effectiveness of a password against guessing or brute-force attacks. In its usual form, it estimates how many trials an attacker who does not have direct access to the password would need, on average, to guess it correctly.

  4. Tips to create a strong password - AOL Help

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    Create a strong password. • Use unique words - Don't use obvious words like "password". • Have 12 or more characters - Longer passwords are more secure. • Avoid sequences or repeated characters - Don't use adjacent characters on your keyboard (QWERTY). • Use a different password for each site - Otherwise, if someone acquires one ...

  5. Strong passwords more important than ever, experts warn - AOL

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    Only one in five people in the UK can correctly identify a secure password over a risky one, according to new research. A study from the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) to mark ...

  6. Here's how to manage your passwords — and your sanity - AOL

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    The program creates secure passwords for every single account you have – from social media to credit card accounts. It then stores all of those unique passwords in a secure vault that can be ...

  7. Salt (cryptography) - Wikipedia

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    Salt (cryptography) In cryptography, a salt is random data fed as an additional input to a one-way function that hashes data, a password or passphrase. [1] Salting helps defend against attacks that use precomputed tables (e.g. rainbow tables ), by vastly growing the size of table needed for a successful attack.

  8. Cryptographic hash function - Wikipedia

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    A cryptographic hash function ( CHF) is a hash algorithm (a map of an arbitrary binary string to a binary string with a fixed size of bits) that has special properties desirable for a cryptographic application: [1] the probability of a particular. n {\displaystyle n} -bit output result ( hash value) for a random input string ("message") is.

  9. Strong cryptography - Wikipedia

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    Strong cryptography or cryptographically strong are general terms used to designate the cryptographic algorithms that, when used correctly, provide a very high (usually insurmountable) level of protection against any eavesdropper, including the government agencies. [1] There is no precise definition of the boundary line between the strong ...