On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 03:04:34PM +0000, Mark H. Wood wrote: > Nicolas Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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.
Yes, that's it. > 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.)-: Someday we'll be able to implant computers in our brains and thought-type and what not. > -- > Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Our lives are forever changed. But *that* is exactly as it always was. Cheers, Nico -- -DISCLAIMER: an automatically appended disclaimer may follow. By posting- -to a public e-mail mailing list I hereby grant permission to distribute- -and copy this message.- Visit our website at http://www.ubswarburg.com This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. The sender therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message which arise as a result of e-mail transmission. If verification is required please request a hard-copy version. This message is provided for informational purposes and should not be construed as a solicitation or offer to buy or sell any securities or related financial instruments.
