On passwords, securtiy and real -sweat, blook and tears- life

[Aaron Konstam]

On Sat, 2006-04-29 at 14:15 +0930, Tim wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-04-29 at 05:45 +0200, A.J. Bonnema wrote:
> > A second issue is: suppose I would force my family to use really 
> > random passwords (like characters picked from a one-time pad).
> 
> You can use dictionary words, but *scrambling* their letters, as a way
> to make things quite easily memorable.
> 
> e.g. Use the words "a", "good" & "friend" by interspersing the letters
> 
>    f r i e n d
>  +  a
>  +    d o o g    (reversed, "good", this time)
> 
>  = fardioeongd
> 
> Just be sure to *really* scramble the letters.
> 
> There's all sorts of tricks for memorising passwords, that's just one of
> them.
> 
> -- 
> (Currently running FC4, in case that's important to the thread)
> 
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John the Ripper does really well on reversed words and names. For
example it guessed :acinorev
Which mystified me until I saw that it was Veronica backwards.
-- 
Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net>