password

Mike McCarty Mike.McCarty at sbcglobal.net
Tue Feb 13 00:27:31 UTC 2007


Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> 
> 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.)

My passwords are never a word in any language, nor any of those
words reverse, etc. The technique you describe, with special
characters intermixed, is actually quite a good one, AIUI.

Mike
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