Package: passwd Version: 1:4.0.18.1-1 Severity: wishlist The manpage of passwd suggests following method to pick a password: "Your password must be easily remembered so that you will not be forced to write it on a piece of paper. This can be accomplished by appending two small words together and separating each with a special character or digit. For example, Pass%word."
This method is not very secure, since many passwords can only be 8 characters long. Therefore, I can only use two short words with a combined maximum length of 7 charaters (plus a special character). This leads to a limited number of possible passwords. Such a password could be vunerable to lexical attacks. I would suggest a this method: 'This can be accomplished by picking two (longer) words, appending their first three characters together and separating each with two special characters or digits. For example, pick "summer" and "beach", your password could be "sum%9bea".' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
