I get why network admins and CIO types live and breath security and hardened passwords, but the average user has gone mad. I like leading alpha characters in combination with an old phone number, with a few non-alpha characters, leading and trailing. Thus a password that I can remember, but not something easy to guess. Example: I worked at Empire Blue Cross 20 years ago. My phone was x3699. 212 476 3699. Thus say, =EmpBC3699& would be fairly good, and I could recall it without writing it down. One could say that 3699 is too easy, perhaps, buts its a quick example of a easy analog way to create a password which is ok, and easy to remember.
Original Message From: Ted Unangst Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2014 4:21 PM To: [email protected] Cc: Eric Furman; OpenBSD Misc Subject: Re: OT:Password strength On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 15:37, [email protected] wrote: > Where do you store these passwords? On a napkin? Wherever you like. A shorter password with all the o's turned into 0's is hardly more secure.
