Yeah. Depends on what your securing and from whom. Good combo is the old biometric plus passphrase plus mutating challenge-response. But 99.99999 don't require it since most people will willingly give up their pw through social engineering and cmps capable of brute force are too busy reading our email. Thanks AT&T!
will evans user experience architect [EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.281.1281 On Feb 19, 2008, at 7:44 PM, "Ari Feldman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > yes but passwords like those you describe are prone to hacking as they > contain dictionary words that some brute force password crackers use > to > increase their chances of cracking passwords. > > > On Feb 19, 2008 3:10 PM, Anthony Hempell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> 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 >> > > > > -- > -------------------------------------------------- > www.flyingyogi.com > -------------------------------------------------- > ________________________________________________________________ > 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 ________________________________________________________________ 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
