Meet our password creators
A big thank you to the following people for giving us ideas for types of plaintexts to include in this year's contest:- "MR" - Minga Redman. That's @CrackMeIfYouCan Founder/creator of the CrackMeIfYouCan contest.
- "JG" - Joe Grand: Runs Grand Idea Studio.
- "HZ" - Headless Zeke: Security Researcher, DEFCON Speaker, 0day finder, and all around good guy.
- "AS" - Adam Shostack: Black Hat Briefings board member, helped found the CVE, thread-modeling god. He is the author of "Threat Modeling: Designing for Security," and the co-author of "The New School of Information Security." Adam Shostack <adam@shostack.org>
- "JM" - Jeff Man: Former NSA pen tester, InfoSec Curmudgeon, and Security Weekly contributor.
- "CC" - Credit Card generator. Submitted by a member of the Password Village Team.
- "EM" - egypt / egyp7 / James Lee: Beard owner. MetaSploit DEV for over 10 years and now a pentester. Spoken at more DEFCON and BlackHat events than you have attended.
- "MU" - Mudge: Seriously, it is Mudge.
- "RP" - Jeff Forristal / Rain Forest Puppy: Seriously, its Rain Forest Puppy. He wrote about SQL injection in 1998. Founded Bluebox Security in 2012.
- "TB" - Tod Beardsley (todb): Director of Research at Rapid7, CVE Board member, and Metasploit collaborator. Recently sued the governor of Texas for blocking him on twitter.
- "TH" - Troy Hunt: Creator of HaveIBeenPwned
- "NP" - Name / Phone numbers.
- "AC" - AreaCodes