Mike McClain wrote: > If a password is any place but in your head I question its > security but here's a scheme for secure passwords that are not > subject to dictionary lookups and are easy to remember. > > Take a name and a number out of your childhood that you'll > remember forever like your first pet and the first phone number > you memorized, scrambled together. For instance: Spottie and 765-4321, > becomes S7p6o5t4t3i2e1. Now throw in a little punctuation: > ..S7p6o5t4t3i2e1!! and you have a password that's personal, easy to > remember and quite difficult to crack. Don't take my word for it, > take your password to GRC.com or another password checker on the web > and see for yourself.
The problem is how many of those can you keep straight in your head? How many web sites and systems all need one of those unique passwords? And you aren't reusing those passwords on multiple unrelated sites are you? As with all things xkcd has already addressed this problem. http://xkcd.com/792/ Reusing passwords is a problem. Which means that trying to remember the unique password for that site is going to be a burden. If you have some scheme of encoding the site into the password using some algorithm unique and secure to you then great. I generate truly random passwords and write them down. Bob
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