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Sorry, there is no way regular people are going to remember pass words or phrases with more than about 50-bits worth of information in them--and even doing that well is going to be rare.
I just pick a sentence and use either the first letter of each word or the last. If I pick a verse of a song that makes it easy to remember. If you're willing to chance a little less security of the phrase, pick one from a book or CD you have near your terminal - I have four or five hundred paperbacks within 10 feet of my terminal. It is very easy to remember "book x, chapter 5 paragraphs 8 through 12." If you feel paranoid, add 1 letter to each of the letters derived from your special phrase or some similar modifying function. jpb@gate.net
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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
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