Proposal - memorizing simple passwords which are hard to crack

[Stefan Claas]

On Sat, Dec 25, 2021 at 9:42 AM Stefan Claas
<spam.trap.mailing.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Dec 25, 2021 at 1:33 AM Punk-BatSoup-Stasi 2.0 <punks at tfwno.gf> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 24 Dec 2021 23:47:35 +0100
> > Stefan Claas <spam.trap.mailing.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > On Fri, Dec 24, 2021 at 10:52 PM Punk-BatSoup-Stasi 2.0 <punks at tfwno.gf> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Fri, 24 Dec 2021 21:16:21 +0100
> > > > Stefan Claas <spam.trap.mailing.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Well, you can do that too, but I prefer his method because in the past
> > > > > I had problems to remember diceware words.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >         My guess then is that you will have more problems remembering random chars.
> > >
> > > The thing with the 'story' is that you make up a long sentence where
> > > each word starts  with the respective letter or in case of digits say, 6 you use the word six.
> >
> >
> >
> >         Oh, ok that sound fine. And how do you encode upper/lower case?
>
> In German, we have uppercase and lowercase words and I should better
> add this to the README.

P.S. IIRC the author once said, for English, that one can use lowercase letters
for words that are smaller than a toaster and for uppercase things that are
larger than a toaster. That such sentences are always nonsense in their meaning
should be clear, which should make guessing harder, but not memorizing.

Regards
Stefan