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ScratchMonkey

3/5/2012 3:35:00 AM

https://www.xkc...

Anyone know if Battlenet accepts really long passwords? Even better if one
can use spaces.
7 Answers

Scrix

3/5/2012 4:12:00 AM

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ScratchMonkey <ScratchMonkey.blacklist@sewingwitch.com> wrote in
news:XnsA00CC73BA426Cscratchmonkey@88.198.244.100:

> https://www.xkc...
>
> Anyone know if Battlenet accepts really long passwords? Even better
> if one can use spaces.


Not sure how long you mean, I use a 10 character one. But that's not
really that long.
--
Scrix

Hans Schuts

3/5/2012 6:07:00 AM

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Op Mon, 5 Mar 2012 03:35:26 +0000 (UTC), ScratchMonkey
<ScratchMonkey.blacklist@sewingwitch.com> schreef:

> https://www.xkc...
>
> Anyone know if Battlenet accepts really long passwords? Even better if one
> can use spaces.

Only one way to find that out: just try it
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With kind regards,

Hans Schuts
nieuwsAThschutsDOTnl

ScratchMonkey

3/5/2012 7:05:00 AM

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Scrix <scrix@belly.invalid> wrote in news:XnsA00CEBF9869ECscrix@
88.198.244.100:

> Not sure how long you mean, I use a 10 character one. But that's not
> really that long.

80 characters would be good, allowing a one-line phrase. 256 is probably a
good limit, being a power of two that will allow a long phrase, even in
UTF-16. (And it should allow unicode, for our international friends.)

Blackheart

3/5/2012 1:51:00 PM

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On Mar 4, 10:35 pm, ScratchMonkey
<ScratchMonkey.blackl...@sewingwitch.com> wrote:
> https://www.xkc...
>
> Anyone know if Battlenet accepts really long passwords? Even better if one
> can use spaces.

probably not. China-golds is big business.

Neil Cerutti

3/5/2012 2:29:00 PM

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On 2012-03-05, Blackheart - US - PvP <blackheart666_2000@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Mar 4, 10:35?pm, ScratchMonkey
><ScratchMonkey.blackl...@sewingwitch.com> wrote:
>> https://www.xkc...
>>
>> Anyone know if Battlenet accepts really long passwords? Even
>> better if one can use spaces.
>
> probably not. China-golds is big business.

Somebody mentioned a study that showed length is the best
possible way to make a password stronger. All that crap about
special characters and mixed caps is, relatively, a waste of time.

--
Neil Cerutti

Debbie

3/5/2012 4:57:00 PM

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"Neil Cerutti" <neilc@norwich.edu> wrote in message
news:9rk0t1FseqU1@mid.individual.net...
> On 2012-03-05, Blackheart - US - PvP <blackheart666_2000@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> On Mar 4, 10:35?pm, ScratchMonkey
>><ScratchMonkey.blackl...@sewingwitch.com> wrote:
>>> https://www.xkc...
>>>
>>> Anyone know if Battlenet accepts really long passwords? Even
>>> better if one can use spaces.
>>
>> probably not. China-golds is big business.
>
> Somebody mentioned a study that showed length is the best
> possible way to make a password stronger. All that crap about
> special characters and mixed caps is, relatively, a waste of time.
>

If you have a keylogger no passowrd length will save you, on the other hand
I have no idea how can someome possibly get hacked with an authenticator.

S U N risr

3/5/2012 5:25:00 PM

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On 3/5/2012 11:56 AM, Shammy wrote:
>
>

>> Somebody mentioned a study that showed length is the best
>> possible way to make a password stronger. All that crap about
>> special characters and mixed caps is, relatively, a waste of time.
>>
>
> If you have a keylogger no passowrd length will save you, on the other
> hand I have no idea how can someome possibly get hacked with an
> authenticator.

Auth and a strong password = rest easy...

A lot of people don't have number letter combos because they can't
remember them...A simple solution to that is take 3 people you care
about and who's b-days you remember... For example, Joe Smith 3/5/1941,
Mary Smith 11/15/1965 and John Smith 7/4/2012

A decent password based on the above they could remember would be :
JS3541MS111565JS7412

Wanna change your password? Change the order and put Mary first or
whatever...This plus a authenticator should be more than good enough for
WoW and hackers...At least it would be better than what some people use
now, I'm sure.