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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
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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
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