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#1 2012-05-24 11:53:18

Aliothe
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#2 2012-05-24 16:50:08

Mox
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Registered: 2007-09-03
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Re: blizzard and security

And what's the problem again?


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#3 2012-05-25 12:35:56

ensiferrum
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Re: blizzard and security

it makes hacking so much easier. i hoestly havent reflected on this, since i only use lowercase, but still should be case sensitive.

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#4 2012-05-25 13:23:53

Draken
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Re: blizzard and security

ensiferrum wrote:

it makes hacking so much easier. i hoestly havent reflected on this, since i only use lowercase, but still should be case sensitive.

You should read this post from the thread you linked to:

Assuming only alphanumerics (no specials), there are usually 52 + 10 = 62 possible values per character in a password. By reducing this by even a small amount, longer password integrity is reduced significantly as it's an exponential difference.

5 characters with 62 possible values: 91,6132,832 possible combinations, expected broken by 50 million.

5 characters with 36 possible values (case insensitive): 60,466,176 possible combinations, broken by 35 million

At 10 characters:
144,555,105,949,057,024
vs.
3,656,158,440,062,976

Simply put, use a password that's at least 10 characters long. Ideally 16+.

The likely reason they support case insensitivity is to make it less likely that people misstype passphrases. So use one, a 50 character long passphrase is relatively secure.

So make a long password with special characters and case sensitivity won't matter anymore. Then you just need to be able to remember said password.


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#5 2012-05-26 10:38:52

Mox
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Re: blizzard and security

Password sample:
"dollydimplespizzawithextracheeseonthecrustnumnum"


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#6 2012-05-26 11:02:12

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Re: blizzard and security

imagine typing that four hundred times an hour when you try to log on to a new game like diablo3 big_smile


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#7 2012-05-26 12:50:47

Mox
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Re: blizzard and security

You'll get hungry for sure!


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#8 2012-05-26 13:27:49

Draken
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Registered: 2005-08-17
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Re: blizzard and security

Apox wrote:

imagine typing that four hundred times an hour when you try to log on to a new game like diablo3 big_smile

You can copy paste into diablo 3's password box, so you only have to write it once tongue


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