Survey: How long is your passphrase? How often do you type it correctly?

I’m curious to know a little about what length passphrase people use for GPG and SSH. If you’re happy to answer these questions, please leave a comment below:

How many characters long (approximately) is your passphrase?
How often do you type it correctly?

For comparison, my passphrase is approximately 50 characters long and I type it correctly perhaps 80% to 90% of the time 🙂

Posted in Uncategorized on 12 October 2005
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10 Responses to Survey: How long is your passphrase? How often do you type it correctly?

On 12 October 2005 at 12:25, mrben said:
Mine is approximately 30 characters long, and I type it correctly 80-90% of the time, although I don’t use it that much….

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On 12 October 2005 at 12:26, Omahn said:
My passphrase is 22 characters long, contains symbols + numbers + uppercase/lower letters, I get it right about 90% of the time.

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On 12 October 2005 at 12:27, the_angry_angel said:
Not long enough (25 characters).
95% accurate.

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On 12 October 2005 at 12:34, sward said:
They vary. Probably somewhere around 50 characters for one and a bit less for the other.

Typing correctly, I’d say about 90% of the time, although it does get quite difficult when drunk, often with several attempts — that’s quite possibly a good thing 🙂

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On 12 October 2005 at 13:10, dwatson (rainking) said:
Mine is 62 characters at about 90% accuracy.

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On 12 October 2005 at 14:02, PerfDave said:
Mine is about 120 characters long, contains mixed case and punctuation, and I type it correctly about 90% of the time.

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On 12 October 2005 at 14:41, resiak said:
My ssh passphrase is about 25 characters, and I very rarely mistype it these days.

My gpg passphrase is shorter, and I typo it all the time. Maybe if it were longer I would enjoy better luck. 🙂

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On 12 October 2005 at 14:41, hbarbobot said:
my password is the largest at 60000 characters, funny enough, after i get done typing it in it creates a buffer overflow, allowing me to have admin access anyway. Go fig!

As for the accuracy its about 10% of the time

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On 12 October 2005 at 14:43, sparkes said:
Mine is 1024 random characters, to speed up entry I keep it on all of my computers, on my webspace, on a public ftp server, and tattoo’d on my penis.

For some strange reason it keeps changing, as do the contents of all my computers and accounts, can somebody please explain this to me?

oh in reality it about 35 chars, and I almost always get it wrong first time 😉

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On 12 October 2005 at 15:10, DJ said:
My GPG passphrase definitely isn’t 8 characters long, all in lower case, with no punctuation. Nope, no way. Absolutely not. I’d never be that lazy/stupid……….

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