Xref: utzoo comp.unix.questions:8154 comp.misc:2783 Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!ima!haddock!karl From: karl@haddock.ISC.COM (Karl Heuer) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.misc Subject: Re: Password choices Keywords: NCSC password security unix Message-ID: <5106@haddock.ISC.COM> Date: 13 Jul 88 15:14:08 GMT References: <1339@daisy.UUCP> <377@mfgfoc.UUCP> <1597@uop.edu> <179@chip.UUCP> <4396@fluke.COM> Reply-To: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer) Organization: Interactive Systems, Boston Lines: 11 In article <4396@fluke.COM> inc@tc.fluke.COM (Gary Benson) writes: >Any other ideas about how to remember what you changed to? I use a different password on each of my major accounts. I have a program that, given N-1 of the passwords, will output the missing one. So I'm safe until I forget two passwords at the same time. (No, the program itself doesn't know my passwords. It only knows the XOR of a base-95 encoding of them. The source code and data file are readable.) Karl W. Z. Heuer (ima!haddock!karl or karl@haddock.isc.com), The Walking Lint