[Discuss] Passwords

[Gary Gauthier]

Good day,

And if you really want to be serious, just make them all from regular words
turned into "Leetspeak"
For example, you could use the word "dictionary" and turn it into something
like "D1<t|0n at rY"
The longer the password, the more secure it is also.
So without going through the complexity requirements of making a password
extra secure, you could just go with phrases from novels and such all strung
together. That would be easier to remember, but some things may not let you
do that if the field is too short.
Then again, if you use a password manager to record them all, the only
password you need to remember is the one to get you into it.
Security best practice...

Ttyl, Gary

On 8/2/07, Daniel M German <dmgerman at uvic.ca> wrote:
>
> Adam Parkin twisted the bytes to say:
>
> Adam> Good advice, and one more piece of free advice: if you're like me
> and
> Adam> can't remember a gazillion different passwords, come up with a
> scheme
> Adam> for generating them.  One possible scheme is to insert letters from
> Adam> the service the password is to be used for into your "standard"
> Adam> password. For example, lets say your normal password is
> "helloWorld",
> Adam> and you want a "secure" password for your Gmail account, then you
> Adam> might use something like:
>
> Adam> helloGmailWorld
>
> Adam> or:
>
> Adam> helloWorldGmail
>
> What you are describing is a rudimentary hash function, which I
> believe is the best simple protection against the proliferation of
> secure credentials.
>
> I would suggest to up-the-ante (whatever that expression really means
> :) and hash the name of the service. So instead of "helloGmailWorld"
> you use somethin like "helloH4World". It makes it a bit more difficult
> to decipher if you lose one key.
>
>
> dmg
>
>
>
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