>Gareth Hinton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> observed Pedantic
>comment in line.
Pedantic? I fall, wounded, cursing the stars and my fate. The black
skies laugh at me and chastise me with thunderbolts. The floggers of
the Elder Gods fall on me, but I am humiliated to find they use wet
noodles.
As the American truckers would say, that's a big oops, good buddy.
I shall emulate Master Ridley and be of good cheer, as my typo lights
a fire that shall never be put out.
>
>""Howard C. Berkowitz"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:p05001943b67a45feb3c2@[63.216.127.98]...
>> >Ray,
>> >
>> >I think there is a misunderstanding. What he said was non alphanumeric
>> >(something other that letters and numbers).
>> >What I think he means is characters such as !@#$%^&*(), and others.
>> >Alphabetic characters, numbers, and especially mixed case are very much
>> >recommended for security, BUT, I can understand the problems associated
>with
>> >a user not remembering that he had the 3rd letter of his cat's name
>> >capitalized.
>> >
>> >My $ 0.02
>> >
>> >Brad
>>
>> Hope it's not getting too far afield, but there are some tricks for
>> getting strong but memorable passwords.
>>
>> The passphrase is good. Remember some natural-language phrase such as
>>
>> "Ciscos that aren't fish aren't kosher"
>>
>> and use the first two letters of each word, capitalizing the first:
>>
>> CiThArFiArKo
>>
>> or even only capitalize the letters that normally would be capitalized:
>>
>> "John Chambers, router jockey"
>>
> > JoCarojo
JoChrojo
I stand in humble correction.
>
>Howard - Your jockey's fallen at the second hurdle, but I get the idea I
>think ;-)
>
>Some of us have trouble remembering our date of birth - MCMLXIV
>
>>
>> You can strengthen any of these, assuming the strings are varying
>> length, by splitting the passphrase into two and putting one or more
>> numeric digits at the center. Passwords with numbers at the beginning
>> or end are a bit easier to guess.
>>
>> There are other tricks that could work with specific people. Without
>> getting specific, my personal passwords come from a background in
>> biochemistry, and tend to be formulas with deliberate errors in them.
>>
>> The Department of Defense/NSA password management guide at
>> http://www.fas.org/irp/nsa/rainbow/std002.htm is quite well written
>> and gives insights into the relative strength of passwords.
> > >
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