Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!apple!earlw From: earlw@Apple.COM (Earl Wallace) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: PASSWORD GUESSING Message-ID: <3532@internal.Apple.COM> Date: 14 Aug 89 03:28:12 GMT References: <1919@aucs.UUCP> <737@rwing.UUCP> <1043@accuvax.nwu.edu> Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA Lines: 17 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" -- not a word you would find in most dictionaries and (somewhat) easy to remember. If everyone would switch to this system of selecting passwords, I think we would make the password guessing game a little more difficult and just think of the neat sentences you could make up: "I want a Volvo Turbo for my next car" ---> IwaVTfmnc "You and I make great waves together" ----> YaImgwt "I wish you would stop smoking in here" --> Iwywssih "Can you break this password, dude?" ----> Cybtp,d? -earlw