Comments on: Small Is Beautiful http://www.blindside.org.uk/2007/12/06/small-is-beautiful/ What's going to go wrong in our e-enabled world? Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:53:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Tom Fuller http://www.blindside.org.uk/2007/12/06/small-is-beautiful/#comment-4960 Tom Fuller Thu, 06 Dec 2007 10:35:46 +0000 http://www.blindside.org.uk/2007/12/06/small-is-beautiful/#comment-4960 Hi Ian, Thanks for this. How many characters should the password contain, and what proportion should be non-alphabetic--do you happen to know? I think that a lot of mid-level government staff would be able to use this information. Hi Ian,

Thanks for this.

How many characters should the password contain, and what proportion should be non-alphabetic–do you happen to know? I think that a lot of mid-level government staff would be able to use this information.

]]> By: Ian Brown http://www.blindside.org.uk/2007/12/06/small-is-beautiful/#comment-4957 Ian Brown Thu, 06 Dec 2007 09:59:32 +0000 http://www.blindside.org.uk/2007/12/06/small-is-beautiful/#comment-4957 No. WinZip 9.0 contains AES (the recent US govt-approved Advanced Encryption Standard) which is secure *if* a password of adequate strength is used. A 10-character password does not qualify and could be guessed trivially by password cracking software. Key management is much harder than just using an appropriate cipher. No. WinZip 9.0 contains AES (the recent US govt-approved Advanced Encryption Standard) which is secure *if* a password of adequate strength is used. A 10-character password does not qualify and could be guessed trivially by password cracking software. Key management is much harder than just using an appropriate cipher.

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