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Old 11-24-2005
John
 
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Default Re: good/bad passwords question

On Wed, 23 Nov 2005 13:54:30 -0600, Moe Trin wrote:


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> The problem then becomes "how do I remember this mess"?
>


Just a suggestion - check out "apg". It's a program that generates
pronouncable passwords made up of selections from the different character
possibilities. It is configurable in many ways and uses input from the
user to generate a random seed. The latter makes it pretty hard to
generate the same list twice.

eg

Raj3 (Raj-Three)
Lib1 (Lib-ONE)
Byn0 (Byn-Zero)
....

You can combine 2 or more of these into a password that is pretty good and
also easy to remember.

Raj3Lib1Byn0

Or separate the pronouncable components with punctuation characters for
more complexity.

Raj1.Lib1,Byn0?
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