[aklug] Re: Passwords - The Conventional Wisdom

I've found made up words that sound like swear words are easily remembered and hard to
guess/brute when 'leet' encoded.

On 04/25/2011 08:06 PM, Bruce Hill wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 08:00:02PM -0800, Christopher Howard wrote:
>> An interesting link from the linuxsecurity bulletin:
>>
>> http://www.baekdal.com/tips/password-security-usability
>>
>> The author brings up the issue of "password complexity" and "password
>> security" to point out that they really aren't the same thing. He throws
>> out a few statistics to show that in some cases, a long but easy to
>> remember password can be more secure than a shorter password with a
>> complex character set. He also suggests that a long, easy to remember
>> password (with simple characters and dictionary words allowed) might be
>> better than a complex password (with all the usual restrictions) because
>> the easier to remember password won't get written down on a sticky note
>> and pasted on the computer monitor.
>>
>> Some interesting thoughts.
>
> One of the interesting uses we found for Pinyin is making long and very
> efficient passwords which don't use words in an English dictionary, do use
> symbols, and are easily remembered. Ex:
>
> wo3ai4Zhu3Ye1su1Ji1du1032459
>
> 28 letters and numbers, no English words, very easy to remember...
>
> Bruce

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Received on Tue Apr 26 08:59:08 2011