On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 21:54, Jim Cheetham wrote: > On Apr 21, 2005, at 3:49 PM, Steve Holdoway wrote: > > Andrew Errington wrote: > >>>> I'm expecting the answer no. > > Correct answer. > > > 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. > > It only extends the password space a little bit. Disable passwords for > ssh, and only use DSA keys. That effectively extends the size of the > "password" from a few bytes to just over 1kb.
Could you point us to a write-up about how that's done please? Thanks. -- C. S.
