Security for under a buck fifty
Mike Johnson second login
exabyte!gedora!mikej2 at uunet.uu.net
Wed Jul 13 09:50:14 PDT 1994
On Tue, 12 Jul 1994 uunet!asu.edu!Ben.Goren at gedora wrote:
> ...
> The tradeoff is between number of characters needed (length of passphrase)
> and diversity of character set. I'd probably have better luck with the
> mnemonic if I didn't have to fit in a whole string of %*$@!, but that
> should probably be a user setting.
Good point. I prefer the )*&^$!(~ stuff in there, but some may not.
> ...
> Another possibility: have a dictionary of different parts of speech and
> assemble them in order. For a short example, each passphrase could be in an
> order such as:
>
> Article adjective modifier noun verb article adjective modifier noun.
Good idea.
> Umph. I think I need to start making time to write code, if I want to see
> this work.
Go for it!
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