Hi :) Yes, i made up an "algorithm" which i then apply to whatever thing it is that needs a password. You know the sort of things, swapping the 3rd and 4th letter, adding 1 character along on the keyboard. Adding symbols after certain characters. That sort of thing. I'd be really stuffed if i got to a public access place that didn't have a qwerty keyboard!
Anyway, the first algorithm i used i kept for about a decade but i made a new one fairly recently. Some sites started saying my 1st algorithm was really weak but others would say it was impossibly strong. The new one ranges from medium-high upwards. Regards from Tom :) --- On Thu, 21/6/12, Felmon Davis <[email protected]> wrote: From: Felmon Davis <[email protected]> Subject: [libreoffice-users] password tricks: was Re:Signing Documents with a personal Certificate To: [email protected] Date: Thursday, 21 June, 2012, 12:46 On Thu, 21 Jun 2012, Tom Davies wrote: > Hi :) > Copy&paste? Store in a file tucked away somewhere safely but with a name > that is NOT something like "List of passwords.txt". Something that seems to > fit in with other files in the same folder but that sticks out to you as > being odd. > Regards from > Tom :) for this particular case, use the last letters of your names (or a friend's or lover's names), a year when you met your favorite honey, and your favorite letter of the alphabet. the codes for my passwords are stored in a file I keep at various spots but in addition I sometimes encrypt it. I say 'codes' because I have certain elements which I combine to make different passwords and I have names for these elements which are only meaningful to me. so 'new-count' means a certain four-digit number I know and 'old-count' is another, thus my password file may contain. 'newcount + oldcount'. obviously this is just some kind of redundancy and if you cannot remember your codes, you have to file them away too but perhaps on paper in a desk-drawer or something. just got a bankcard for a bank in Germany; nothing to do but to note it down somewhere. F. > > --- On Thu, 21/6/12, Steve Edmonds <[email protected]> wrote: > > From: Steve Edmonds <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Signing Documents with a personal Certificate > To: [email protected] > Date: Thursday, 21 June, 2012, 8:50 > > 1 lower case letter, 1 upper case letter, a number, white space and a > misc symbol, a second additional point for having it over 30 characters > and don't include any section of your name, or password or email address > or if it matches a word from the English dictionary. > > Hows an over 50 supposed to remember a password like that!! > > On 2012-06-21 17:47, Marc Grober wrote: >> https://www.cacert.org/index.php?id=1 >> >> On 6/20/12 6:14 PM, James Knott wrote: >>> Marc Grober wrote: >>>> get a cert from CACert.org >>> Hmmm... >>> >>> I just tried going to that site and got this: >>> >>> "This Connection is Untrusted >>> >>> You have asked Firefox to connectsecurely to www.cacert.org, but we can't >>> confirm that your connection is secure. >>> >>> Normally, when you try to connect securely, sites will present trusted >>> identification >>> to prove that you are going to the right place. However, this site's >>> identity can't be >>> verified. >>> >>> >>> >>> What Should I Do? >>> >>> If you usually connect to this site without problems, this error could >>> mean that >>> someone is trying to impersonate the site, and you shouldn't continue." >>> >>> Not good for a certificate site. >>> >> > > -- Felmon Davis Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. -- Mark Twain -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
