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April 2, 2020

New Ground for an Ancient City

Landsat images comparing greater Cairo (particularly the eastern half) from 1984 and 2019.
Lots of good references.

Password strength - Wikipedia
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Discusses entropy as a measure of password strength, and includes two useful tables.
For example, a 30-character password using alphanumeric characters (mixing both small- and upper-case letters) achieves around 160 bits of entropy.

The article also includes guidelines for strong passwords, reproduced below:

  • Use a minimum password length of 10 or more characters if permitted.
  • Include lowercase and uppercase alphabetic characters, numbers and symbols if permitted.
  • Generate passwords randomly where feasible.
  • Avoid using the same password twice (e.g., across multiple user accounts and/or software systems).
  • Avoid character repetition, keyboard patterns, dictionary words, letter or number sequences.
  • Avoid using information that is or might become publicly associated with the user or the account, such as username, ancestors' names or dates.
  • Avoid using information that the user's colleagues and/or acquaintances might know to be associated with the user, such as relative or pet names, romantic links (current or past) and biographical information (e.g., ID numbers, ancestors' names or dates)..
  • Do not use passwords which consist wholly of any simple combination of the aforementioned weak components.