Tim wrote: > Manuel Arostegui Ramirez: >>> Of course I'm not going to tell you guys what I do with my passwords :-) > > Vivek J. Patankar: >> So why mention it in the first place? > > Quoting from Yes Minister, or Yes Prime Minister (a BBC TV series): > - Can you keep a secret? > - Yes... > - So can I. > (End of that conversation) > > I would imagine that dictionary attacks would, now, also try mixing > together some words in various ways. I think that if you have trouble > deciding on what to use for a password, you'd really want to take about > three words, at least, scramble the letters into gibberish, and use > that, making your password as long as the system will let you. You do > want to make it so that any brute force attempt on your password takes > as much time as you can make it. > Another interesting way to have a fairly strong password, but still be able to remember it is to come up with a sentence or phrase. Then take the first letter of each word, and use that as your password. It would be better if there were some numbers/special symbols in it, but it is a big improvement over most passwords. For example, you could take my signature and create a password of Dnmitaod,ftacatgwk - try a dictionary attack on that. (Probably too long a password for most places, but you get the idea.) Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
