On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, John Carter wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, yuri wrote:
>
> > On 4/21/05, Steve Holdoway wrote:
> >> I read a rather good article from some at Mickey$oft about security. He
> >> suggested that you give up on the use of passwords altogether. Instead
> >> you should use a passphrase. Easy for you to remember, but at 30 or 40
> >> characters, almost impossible to hack.
> >
> >Isn't a passphrase just a very long password?
> > What am I missing here?
>
> If we use
> Isn't a passphrase just a very long password?
> as a passphrase the result would be...
> Iapjavlp
>
> which isn't very long and certainly not susceptible to a dictionary
> attack.
I understand that a passphrase is a long password which allows spaces.
The above sentence would be an acceptable passphrase.
Phil.
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