On Sat, 2006-04-29 at 14:15 +0930, Tim wrote: > On Sat, 2006-04-29 at 05:45 +0200, A.J. Bonnema wrote: > > A second issue is: suppose I would force my family to use really > > random passwords (like characters picked from a one-time pad). > > You can use dictionary words, but *scrambling* their letters, as a way > to make things quite easily memorable. > > e.g. Use the words "a", "good" & "friend" by interspersing the letters > > f r i e n d > + a > + d o o g (reversed, "good", this time) > > = fardioeongd > > Just be sure to *really* scramble the letters. > > There's all sorts of tricks for memorising passwords, that's just one of > them. > > -- > (Currently running FC4, in case that's important to the thread) > > Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. > I read messages from the public lists. John the Ripper does really well on reversed words and names. For example it guessed :acinorev Which mystified me until I saw that it was Veronica backwards. -- Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
