On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, Craig Caughlin wrote:
> Hi folks, > I'd like to set a very difficult password for my Bering-uClibc 2.1-rc1 box > (for obvious reasons), and I'm open to suggestions. :-) When I want something hard to guess, I get out dice. There is a game called "Scattegories" that has a 20-sided die with letters on it. I use a regular 6-sided die to determine whether a character is a number, letter, and whether shift is pressed. If it's a letter, use the big scattegories die. For example: 1-3 = letter, 4-6 = number. Roll again, 1-3 = no shift, 4-6 = shift. If it is a letter, roll the scattegories die, if a number, roll a 10 sider. (OK, I admit, I play D & D.) Repeat 8 times. This gives an 8 character password with 60 possibilities for each charater, or a hell of a lot off possibilities. I don't know how good the password is, but it is pretty random! Of course, they are also hard to remember. I log in about 10 times in a row immediately afterward until I have it memorized. Then I toss the slip of paper it is written on in the safe... Someone will probably be able to point out a major flaw, but it feels safe to me. Allan ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
