Well, memory seems to be a highly individual thing. Mine is not so good in some ways, and I've had to learn to search for the kinds of patterns that I find memorable.
Frequent use helps too: I've learned to put repeating "touching base" notes on my calendar to make me learn passwords to things which are infrequently accessed but urgent when I do need them. (I don't put the passwords in the calendar, of course!) Incidentally, I've sometimes substituted a mechanical nonsense word into a phrase, mostly just to satisfy some nag about "you should switch to a passphrase". So I wound up with things like: Paul McCartney fakbetyest Abbey Road Studios I don't expect it to be much stronger than the nonsense word alone, but perhaps it will encourage a complex cracker to waste time on clever shortcuts before falling back to brute force. These I find more or less equally memorable as the word alone. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [email protected] Asking whether markets are efficient is like asking whether people are smart.
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