Another strategy is to create memorable Name/Number combinations that are part of a larger set that can be mined for almost infinite password ideas, such as:
Car make / year (Cadillac77 or Mustang!56) Athlete / number (Jordan23 or Gretzky!99) etc.... On 19-Feb-08, at 12:00 PM, Katie Albers wrote: > I know I was taught by a shockingly sane network engineer that the > easy way to develop hard to crack passwords was to choose a regular > word of the right length in your native language and then substitute > number(s) and punctuation marks as appropriate and capitalize either > the first or last letter. As long as you use consistent > substitutions, all you have to remember is the word. So, for example, > "Olympics" becomes > "0!ymp1cS" and in all my passwords O becomes 0, L becomes !, I > becomes 1 and so forth. Not all users have to use the same set of > substitutions, but each user needs to be consistent from one password > to the next, otherwise it's yet another memory problem. > > Is there a problem with recommending -- perhaps on a "help" linked > page -- such a method to users? > ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
