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Re: suggesting passwds to users

Subject: Re: suggesting passwds to users
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 12:37:55 -0500
What I see here is user reality. Random data has two very strong properties;

1. it is random

2. nobody can remember it.

So, by giving an user random passwords, you now incur the risk of the
user writing the new, improved, passowrd on a post-it, and sticking it
on a safe and easy to reach place.

End result: you are now more vulnerable...

On 4/19/05, Matt Fisher <mfisher@spidynamics.com> wrote:
The first thing I think of in this scenario is what "random" means.  I
don't know that much about rand generators, but I do know that some have
been flawed, and presented not-so-random numbers.

-- 
..hggdh..

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