Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!agate!bionet!apple!vsi1!wyse!mips!prls!gordon From: gordon@prls.UUCP (Gordon Vickers) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: PASSWORD GUESSING Message-ID: <24888@prls.UUCP> Date: 15 Aug 89 15:48:17 GMT References: <1919@aucs.UUCP> <737@rwing.UUCP> <1043@accuvax.nwu.edu> <3532@internal.Apple.COM> <3126@rti.UUCP> Reply-To: gordon@prls.UUCP (Gordon Vickers) Organization: Philips Research Labs, Sunnyvale, California Lines: 16 In article <3126@rti.UUCP> trt@rti.UUCP (Thomas Truscott) writes: -> I like passwords that are created by using the first letter in each word -> of a sentence such as: -> -> "I like eating hot soup in the winter" -> -> So, the passwd would be "ilehsitw" ... The advice I see most often, and use myself is to simply pick two unrelated words that are seperated by a symbol, with the entire password being seven or eight charectors in length. Care to figure what the odds are of a hacker breaking it ? Gordon Vickers 408/991-5370 (Sunnyvale,Ca); {mips|pyramid|philabs}!prls!gordon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Every extinction, whether animal, mineral, or vegetable, hastens our own demise.