Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:40:56 -0400 From: "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com> To: Christof Schulze <christof.schulze@gmx.net> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OT: 2d password Message-ID: <d7195cff0904210940k6820c685we9e4012a891538c9@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200904201317.44334.christof.schulze@gmx.net> References: <754723275-1240208442-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-1046132361-@bxe1006.bisx.prodap.on.blackberry> <49EC305D.4010202@NLnetLabs.nl> <20090420162802.5959c7fa@icy.local> <200904201317.44334.christof.schulze@gmx.net>
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2009/4/20 Christof Schulze <christof.schulze@gmx.net>: > Am Montag 20 April 2009 11:28:02 schrieb K=E1=BB=B3 Anh, Hu=E1=BB=B3nh: >> [ ways of generating passwords] >> >> Finally I get into 2-d moving on the keyboard as described in my first >> post. I check some passwords in http://www.testyourpassword.com/ and see >> that some stupid patterns on keyboard show a "STRONG" status. I event >> get the BEST password with some simple moving around symbols and >> letters. > I good way to remember secure passwords was presented in the uptimes > magazine a while ago in an article about passwords and their security. > > Good passwords contain a lot of entropy. > Also the entropy of letters in the beginning of words seems to be higher > than the entropy towards the end of words in western languages. > The proposal that the author Thomas Maus is making is this: > > Pick a sentence and take the first character(s) from each word to be your > password. > > Example > "I like doing laundry wednesday evening 8pm." > > the resulting password would be: > "Ildlwe8p" > > It is easy to remember because the sentence is natural language. Also it = is > fairly easy to come up with. > This article provides some good insights into the effectivity of password > policies. The bottom line is that the way these policies are used today > cause weaker passwords because they work against the user. In the end som= e > proposals are made what to do to obtain better passwords and how to > implement a policy for stronger passwords. A jar of peanut butter nearby: at16g25%Tota A lantern battery: ada165Kinca --=20 --
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