Kenny Log-Ins

https://www.kennylog-in.com

by CharlesW • 3 years ago

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lcnPylGDnU4H9OF• 3 years ago

A password manager called "Kenny's Logins".

A logstash-esque service called "Kenny's Loggin'".

A plugin for a password manager to autotype credentials called "Kenny Logs In".

An OAuth service called "Kenny (or she) Login?".

j-rom• 3 years ago

The ideas are endless!

* Timber company - Kenny's Loggin'

* Craft gin - Kenny's Log Gin

* Exponent-related math discovery - Kenny's Log(in)

drewrv• 3 years ago

* Hotel - Kenny's Log Inn

Waterluvian• 3 years ago

K-Means Log(n)

soVeryTired• 3 years ago

A manufacturer and fitter of wooden legs: “Ken’s knee-log in”

jdwyah• 3 years ago

I've had an interview question we called KennyLoggings.

Pair program on a feature that lets you change the log levels of your rails app based on the path and class hierarchically. So you could set INFO for app/models but DEBUG for just app/models/user.rb.

I quite liked it as an interview question / and as a tool.

deepsquirrelnet• 3 years ago

I don't hate it. I need a keepass version though, especially reskinned with the Ken Log theme they have here. Maybe add a sound byte when generating a password.

languagehacker• 3 years ago

This one has a Yachstky score of 100.

dangerboysteve• 3 years ago

You use "Danger Zone" for weak passwords. That just hurts.

chromatin• 3 years ago

"I'm alright" has alright security.

this website is glorious

racl101• 3 years ago

It makes sense though. Using weak passwords puts you in the 'danger zone'.

hackan2• 3 years ago

Add spaces, for the love of god! Spaces are symbols as well, and are easier to read, type and remember...

aidenn02• 3 years ago

And are often disallowed by services (more often than special characters are in my experience).

xp84• 3 years ago

Ain't that the truth. I once was locked out of my work systems for a day or two while IT investigated, turns out a trailing space at the end was...not disallowed explicitly, but would result in a broken account everywhere but your laptop.

hackan2• 3 years ago

never really meet one, at least not in the recent years...

zhte415• 3 years ago

Why not backspaces, too?

Zecc• 3 years ago

A space can be typed quite easily, while a backspace cannot.

That said, even systems which do not accept spaces will accept them as long as they are immediately followed by an equal amount of backspaces. /s

AnotherGoodName• 3 years ago

I use 2fac shakurity myself.

tenderlove• 3 years ago

Use a password manager with autofill so you'll make no mistakes where you are

jordanmorgan10• 3 years ago

Love the internet

g0ran• 3 years ago

You're gonna dig this then.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNTARSM-Fjc&list=PL10CF66759...

doctor_eval• 3 years ago

Omg. This is the reason I started an early ISP in the 90s.

elchief• 3 years ago

"kenny" was the name of our login system in a PHP web app I built a long time ago

svachalek• 3 years ago

I forgot about all the Winnie the Pooh stuff he did.

kennyloginz• 3 years ago

Whew, I have become anonymous.

foreheadhurts• 3 years ago

This is the answer to a clue on a classic radio show, The Ricky Gervais Show.

"The Scottish fellas cannot get into their emails. Initials: KL."

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GKM3lJCM9T4#t=42m50s has the three clues.

Good memories!

windowsworkstoo• 3 years ago

The amount of ideas that Karl had which came to reality, that Steve and Ricky dismissed as mental is what keeps me listening to Youtube compilations of their show to this very day :D

verall• 3 years ago

Why does this request to sdasdbjasdbkakdb.online to generate the password?

I know nothing about webdev

dfdg• 3 years ago

What kinda data is sent?

zokier• 3 years ago

The passphrases are generated server-side; in case it wasn't otherwise obvious, please do not use the passphrases for anything

zzzeek• 3 years ago

a+ for graphic design

aendruk• 3 years ago

Context: Kenny Loggins (Kenneth Clark Loggins) is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenny_Loggins

nativecoinc• 3 years ago

I only make passwords based on the lyrics of Neil Peart.

    N3tBoi\N3gGril\SendY0urM3ssage\AroundTh3W0rld

JimDabell• 3 years ago

This reminds me of the time I got banned from a karaoke bar for singing Danger Zone too often. They said I exceeded the maximum number of Loggins attempts.

hnarn3• 3 years ago

It's funny, but slightly disappointing that it uses special characters, camelcase etc. -- in my mind there are two kinds of passwords/phrases:

- Those that you are NOT expected to memorize because they go into a manager, and can therefore be N character random strings with characters every possible variation (max entropy)

- Those that you ARE expected to memorize because they should be kept out of a manager, and in order for them to be N characters they need to be memorable, like lowercase-only phrases/sentences connected by hyphens or similar (max memorability)

This example of a "strong" password from the webapp is neither:

#??8FlOATInfreECHrIsTOphERRObINMeTaLUnDERTENSioN

It contains words (for humans) but is impossible to remember, a better one would be:

float-in-free-christopher-robin-metal-under-tension

Because the only reason to use words in the first place would be if a human is supposed to remember it. If not, you might as well use:

bauPT#HTC*rTmxx#&djukQjntgy4wxdD^RPQL6tbxL3G5VG7y

weinzierl2• 3 years ago

There might be two kinds of passwords/phrases but there is only one kind of secure passwords and that is the first kind you mentioned.

hnarn3• 3 years ago

Ok, why?

joombaga• 3 years ago

Sometimes I have to type passwords into apps or websites that my password manager does not work, or on other devices like my TV or game consoles. There's a middle ground between your options that's perfect for these scenarios.

My password manager can generate passwords like

DWOW!psap.rair2vim

It's split into 3-4 character groups, with numbers and symbols used to delimit each group. It's memorizable without (intentionally) using words, and fairly easy to type with a remote or controller.

hnarn3• 3 years ago

I think we agree that passwords should be adapted for their use case, but my point is also that in a lot of cases it's not motivated to use a password that "looks random" if you're going to have to type it in yourself.

"DWOW!psap.rair2vim" has ~118 Bits of entropy, but that's still less than this string (~129 bits):

ggggg-eeeee-aaaaa-rrrrr

Remembering "the word gear, separated by hyphens in groups of 5" is trivial, and it's not a bad password. A lot of people think that it's a bad password because it "looks" insecure, but it's not: it's only insecure if the attacker has previous knowledge of the structure of the password, which they won't.

Of course it's not unthinkable that dictionary words with up to 10 repetitions separated by hyphens would be a part of some kind of generated dictionary list, but you can always "pad" the password, or do whatever else to make the structure that you came up with less predictable while still being memorable (to you), like:

!ggggg-eeeee-aaaaa-rrrrr! (~147 bits)
ggggg-eeeee!aaaaa-rrrrr (~135 bits)

You mention one of the things that is commonly understood as a "bad thing", which is "using words": that's not by itself a bad thing unless your password is the word, as soon as your password changes to "gear!" the dictionary needs to be expanded, the same goes for "gear!!!". Both of these are not good passwords, but my point here is that the fact that a word is included in some shape or form is not in itself a problem: if you have a password that's over 1,000 characters long composed of nothing but the word "gear" being repeated, that doesn't make it an easy password to crack with no prior knowledge.

redjet• 3 years ago

The UK adult comic "Viz" had the idea of "Kenny Loggins and his many logins" quite a few years ago: https://imgur.com/1ZUX26o

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