Nicolas Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 03:02:43PM -0200, Andreas Hasenack wrote: >> Em Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 11:48:18AM -0500, Nicolas Williams escreveu: >> > Actually, users are probably not picking better passwords today than 10 >> > years ago, not unless they're forced to (and then they may write them >> >> We have to force them to pick even better passwords today, that's >> what I meant. > > Hardware is improving faster than culture... :)
Culture, nothing. Our neural structure itself is against us. I simply can't learn a really strong password within a really strong expiration interval. I'll have to write it down. Poof! there goes the security of strong passwords changed frequently. Hardware can help. A smart token can learn fearfully long keys and remember them for me. (Of course if you can get my token then the problem reduces once more to a moderately-strong password.)-: -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Our lives are forever changed. But *that* is exactly as it always was.
