17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
Re:
If I pick a verse of a song that makes it easy to remember.
Aaaaaaagh!
Eli, what I mean is, say you are using the stanza Can we film the operation, Is the head dead yet? Get the widow on the set, give us dirty laundry as a mnemonic. The pass phrase becomes cwftoithdygtwotsgudl If you pick a simple modification like add 1 to the first letter, 2 the second, 3 to the third, and then repeat (123123) you get a pass phrase of dyiuqlujgziwxqwtixen. Throw in some numbers and you should get a decently random pass phrase that is easy to remember. If you're really paranoid, pick two phrases from different books and use words from both to compute the phrase. Hardly a major security risk if you pick something obscure. jpb@gate.net