On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 05:34:43PM -0600, Owen Densmore wrote: > On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 1:34 PM, Barry MacKichan < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > ... > > > > Since I use a password manager (1Password) there is very little cost in > > keeping a 20-character password (which I never type anyway) even for those > > sites with 2-factor authentication. > > > > —Barry > > > I too use 1P but haven't taken the plunge for random, unknown to me, > passwords. Has it caused you any problems? Or do you flinch at times, > finding yourself w/o 1P and needing to login? >
Not a problem if the websites in question allow password recovery via email, which most do. I was also in a position of having forgotten my lastpass login (or rather my browser forgetting, since I never usually have to enter the lastPass). I had a rather cryptic "twice the usual" as my mnemonic. About 24 hours elapsed before it occurred to me what that meant. Fortunately, the "usual" had not changed since I had set it :). -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics [email protected] University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au Latest project: The Amoeba's Secret (http://www.hpcoders.com.au/AmoebasSecret.html) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
