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That's pretty cool. Lasspass is a neat option that stores all you long
cryptic passwords in an encrypted vault and automatically feeds them to
website login screens when needed. Everything is protected by a master
password. You could use your strategy for the master password.<br>
<br>
Ron<br>
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On 02/12/2011 11:04 AM, Drifter wrote:
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<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">the recent chatter about
network security has, mostly, skirted around the password problem. Too
many web sites that need strong security restrict passwords by length,
or character set, or both. So also do many corporate web sites.
Software exists that can generate random alphanumeric passwords, but
they routinely suffer the same fault: being difficult to remember,
users end up with notes taped to monitors, voiding the security.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">For the past decade or so I
have been recommending that computer users pick out several favorite
poems/songs and use them to generate passwords.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">For example, fans of
mathematics might reach for Lewis Carroll:</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><span
style="font-style: italic;">The time has come, the Walrus said, to
talk of many things</span>,</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">which would generate the
short password <tthctwsttomt>, which munged just a little bit
becomes <TthctW5ttomT>.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">or perhaps, </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><span
style="font-style: italic;">’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves<br>
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">which would generate
<tbatstDgagitw></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">English majors might prefer
something from "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock":</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><span
style="font-style: italic;">In the room the women come and go,</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><span
style="font-style: italic;">Talking of Michelangelo.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">Or the opening of "A Tale
of Two Cities":</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><span
style="font-style: italic;">It was the best of times, it was the worst
of times;</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">I do not, for obvious
reasons, ever suggest the song</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">"All I want for Christmas
is a hippopotamus." :)</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">The people I advise do not
understand the need for encryption, so the topic of pass phrases does
not usually come up. Memorable quotations from obscure works are ideal,
but all too often are not considered.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">I wish that financial
institutions would lift restrictions on password length and complexity,
but that would, almost certainly, entail reworking a poorly crafted
database.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">Sean</p>
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