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Re: Linking Password Length to Write-down probability

from [Dan Tesch] Network Security

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Subject:	Re: Linking Password Length to Write-down probability
Date:	Fri, 27 May 2005 10:44:19 -0500

Following this thread makes me think about the proprietary app(s) my company uses that don't allow anything longer than an eight character psswd. and to top it off isn't case sens!

It seems obvious that the longer/more complex the
password, the more likely the user is to write it down,
so I'm not sure that such a study would really yield any
new insight. What I've taken to doing is stressing the idea
of a passphrase instead of a password, then using the
initial letters of each word, and mixing caps.other characters
as needed for complexity, so:

"My dog used to have fleas but he ate them" becomes "Mdu2Hfbh8T"

10 characters, rather than 8, upper-lower-numeric, but still a
password the user can be reasonably expected to remember.

dcj2

Stian

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