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authorChristian Urban <christian dot urban at kcl dot ac dot uk>
Thu, 10 Sep 2015 09:45:10 +0100
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 \item What is the difference between a brute force attack and a 
   dictionary attack on passwords? 
+  
+\item Even good passwords consisting of 8 characters, can be 
+  broken in around 50 days (obviously this time varies a lot and
+  also gets shorterand shorter). Do you think it is good 
+  policy to require users to change their password every 3 
+  months (as King's did until recently)? Under which 
+  circumstance should users be required to change their 
+  password?
 
 \item What are good uses of cookies (that is browser cookies)?