Sampo A Syreeni wrote:
For myself, I often use as pass phrases memorized phrases from literature. Which ones? Well, I read four languages, and I do the number/letter and symbol/letter substitutions, so I feel secure even revealing that clue.
Good for you. Most people never go to even that much trouble. But I still think that dictionary searches on, say, all consequtive subsequences of 6-200 characters in the top 100 most likely to have been read books of a
I tend to just string up lots of characters, so my passphrases look like this: ^#.;Odfi9@7f$}'~%42w0,m:Qe_|33+\ and so on. How do you memorize this? You break it up in chunks, memorize each chunk, then link them together. And then you type it in a lot of times the first few days you use it. It's not that hard. If you don't use it on a daily basis, the danger is in forgetting it. Yep, most people would have a coronary before accepting the above as a passphrase. Fuck'em. They deserve the security they're willing to provide themselves. Passphrases from books are nice, but if they're all text, they're a hell of a lot easier to brute than the above. Especially if you have the texts in electronic form. -- ----------------------Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--------------------------- + ^ + :Surveillance cameras|Passwords are like underwear. You don't /|\ \|/ :aren't security. A |share them, you don't hang them on your/\|/\ <--*-->:camera won't stop a |monitor, or under your keyboard, you \/|\/ /|\ :masked killer, but |don't email them, or put them on a web \|/ + v + :will violate privacy|site, and you must change them very often. --------_sunder_@_sunder_._net_------- http://www.sunder.net ------------