<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3584090528229297196</id><updated>2012-02-16T18:25:43.333-08:00</updated><category term='encrypted usb disk'/><category term='encrypted password'/><category term='encrypted usb drive'/><category term='encrypted usb'/><title type='text'>Encrypted USB --- Picking a Password for your Encrypted USB Drive</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://encryptedusb33.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3584090528229297196/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://encryptedusb33.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Dick Holt</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00401633706656050149</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>1</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3584090528229297196.post-8797587578039333384</id><published>2010-01-26T17:29:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-26T17:29:38.479-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='encrypted usb'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='encrypted password'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='encrypted usb drive'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='encrypted usb disk'/><title type='text'>Encrypted USB --- Encrypted USB Drive Password Guidelines</title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.protectedusb.com/encryptstick'&gt;Protect your Identity NOW!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.protectedusb.com/encryptstick' &gt;&lt;img src="http://www.venturecoil.com/encryptstick/encrypt-stick%20banner.png" alt="Encrypted USB" title="Encrypted USB" border=1 height=25% width=100% /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt; Has a password vault!&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;World-leading 512-bit PMC Encryption&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Can be purchased as software or as an Encrypted USB Drive&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Recoverable in case of loss&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Would take more time than there are atoms in the universe to crack!!!&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.protectedusb.com/encryptstick'&gt;CLICK HERE!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; That is why we have armed forces, early defense systems and machines of mass destruction.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Funny thing, in the world of Encrypted Passwords, the baddie seems to be Brute Force Attacks brought on by folks who try to hurt you or your business.  When it comes to your great &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.protectedusb.com/encryptstick'&gt;Encrypted USB&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; Flash Drive that you have just acquired, the neatest thing would be to understand the &lt;br /&gt; guidelines that  govern the kind of password you decide on.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt; As such, I have compiled a short list of what to pick and what not to choose, a variety of information I've gathered while in IT and while dealing with &lt;i&gt;Encrypted USB&lt;/i&gt; Disk.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; The longer the password is, the more difficult to crack it using brute force attack.&lt;/li&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;li&gt; It is made of both small-case and highercase characters.  This doubles brute force attack time, because it has to check both cases.&lt;/li&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;li&gt;It contains numeric characters.  Thus, adding another ten chances for each character of the password and thus increases cracking time.&lt;/li&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;li&gt;It contains special characters.  Thus, adding yet, another twenty more characters .&lt;/li&gt; &lt;br /&gt; This increases cracking time yet again.&lt;/li&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br&gt; &lt;br /&gt; As can be seen, it is not extremely tough to have an exceedingly tough to decrypt password.  In the application of any &lt;a href='http://www.protectedusb.com/encryptstick'&gt;Encrypted USB&lt;/a&gt; Disk, where you likely have critical and sensitive info, you &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; should assign yourself a grade of thepassword you have chosen.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br /&gt; If you don't have, at  least, a final score of four (4), pick a new password.  No &lt;u&gt;Encrypted USB&lt;/u&gt; Flash Drive should ever be around without that level of password.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Finally, regardless of how good the  encryption algorithm, an &lt;b&gt;Encrypted USB&lt;/b&gt; Drive is never better than its password.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.protectedusb.com/encryptstick'&gt;Protect your Identity NOW!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By the way, you may want to check some of these sites out too...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://gary52webb.terapad.com/index.cfm?fa=contentNews.newsDetails&amp;newsID=180163&amp;from=list"&gt;What is PMC 512-bit Encryption&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://cid-7cb4573ddc74200a.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!7CB4573DDC74200A!106.entry"&gt;An Exploratory look at PMC 512-bit Encryption&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://usbdrivesecurity35.onsugar.com/Security-USB-Flash-Drive-7160553"&gt;USB Flash Drive Security&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://encrypted-usb79.blog.friendster.com/2010/01/pmc-512-bit-encryption-2/"&gt;What is PMC 512-bit Encryption&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3584090528229297196-8797587578039333384?l=encryptedusb33.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://encryptedusb33.blogspot.com/feeds/8797587578039333384/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://encryptedusb33.blogspot.com/2010/01/encrypted-usb-encrypted-usb-drive.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3584090528229297196/posts/default/8797587578039333384'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3584090528229297196/posts/default/8797587578039333384'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://encryptedusb33.blogspot.com/2010/01/encrypted-usb-encrypted-usb-drive.html' title='Encrypted USB --- Encrypted USB Drive Password Guidelines'/><author><name>Dick Holt</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00401633706656050149</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
