On Tuesday, September 01, 2020 02:42:50 PM Mike McClain wrote: > On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 09:41:06PM +0000, Long Wind wrote: > <snip> > > > my memory is poor, i can't remember many accounts and passwords > > The more experience you have the harder it is to find the > memory you're searching for. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
+1 ;-) > Mnemonics can make passwords relatively easy to remember and can > be very secure if chosen carefully. > Mom's birthday is 5 May 1919, a secure password is *M05o05m19m19a? > I have an AT&T account and an address I haven't lived at in 50 years is > 5535 El Campo, Ft. Worth, Texas 75107, so :A5535t75107t;. > That should give you the idea, a mix of upper and lower case, > numerals and punctuation selected from things no longer current can make > good passwords easy to remember. That can be a good approach, but a modern approach seems to be tending towards multiple whole words, e.g. "book swimming Wednesday conduct" (all together as a password. A password like this can be easier for a person to remember (especially if you create a mnemonic to go with it) and be harder for a computer to guess. I've read articles about the approach, but don't remember enough to explain it very well. > GRC.com has a password checker
