What password-length do you use on most websites?

*blow dust off old thread*

That password checker is lame...
qwerty123 - medium
qwerty123! - strong
2135468712316548943212313546879242135497 - weak

Say wha?!

 

from site.........

hence qwerty123! - strong.........and
qwerty123!5t6g - best

 

Not really, most of the example is far from being:

You are better off NOT using any "predictable" combinations in the overall password...

 

For practicality, a (*) char included, three word passphrase, five or more for financial. Mind you, _oogle sits alongside JS enabled!

 

Update from June 2007. (boy this thread has been around a while) On security aware sites I now use 10 characters.

 

Usually, the max number.

 

you take some upper case, lower case, symbols and numbers so you have strong password

 

Generally 11, for particular sites 17, better would be 22, I know , but I have not banking anyway.

 

I am trying to get out of the habit of using the same password for every website. I actually do use 8, its weird how that is the most used =)

 

OH, I like that passphrase site and the Password Recovery Site!

Good to know, unless I live to be at least 1000, I'm doing it right!

I wish we could use that passphrase site at work, comin up with new passwords every month for every prog we use, is a drag...

 

Lol, lots of people with 8 characters hahaha
Including myself

 

Yo, ShakeTheBabyAss - there's an easy way ~ wink, wink ~ of dealing with that.

 

Voted 10, but that is a minimum.

 

6-10, voted 8

But I periodically generate a new one in Roboform to the max length for secure sites and

use substitution to come with a new 15-20 digit one periodically for Windows on home systems.

 

I currently have 3 passwords on the go (some accounts created years ago still have the same weak password).

For websites like these I use a password of less than 10 characters long. For important accounts I use a password of 20+ characters long.