-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 29 Jul 2005, Chris De Young wrote: > Some people have started to suggest that actually writing down passwords, if > they're kept in a secure place, might not be a bad idea; the rationale is that > passwords which can be considered "good" are reaching the point of being > un-memorizable.
http://www.adel.nursat.kz/apg/ I find many FIPS-181 "words" to be significantly more memorable than unconstrained strings of random printables and they should be reasonably strong if they're not too short. VMS' SET PASSWORD/GENERATE command supposedly uses this method and has been in the field for many years. If you need a really long secret you could always make up a "sentence" of shorter FIPS-181 "words". It might be easier to remember than one long string. - -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open-source executable: $0.00. Source: $0.00 Control: priceless! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: pgpenvelope 2.10.2 - http://pgpenvelope.sourceforge.net/ iD8DBQFC7irzs/NR4JuTKG8RAgXWAJwKRWGGmCltgG3Sv/evhXTPSsfAwQCfbt94 T0O4dbanNLPhpcfPvxnKYoo= =RvlX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
