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Re: Can't create a password successfully.



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On Sunday, April 3rd, 2022 at 1:45 PM, Andrew M.A. Cater <amacater@einval.com> wrote:


> One of the bits of advice is to use long passwords made up of three
> random words and to use a different password per website / to use
> your web browser to generate an appropriate random password.
> Forcing passwords to change regularly may not be a good way to
>
> maintain security - it can mean that people use password01, password0
> and things like that.

Another password generator suggestion:

I'm 79 and memory isn't what it used to be, so I find those "secure" passwords generated by computers to be less than optimal.

I use a system that I claim can't be hacked by a dictionary search and almost certainly not by guessing, but will be easy to remember:

Think of a line or two from a relatively obscure play or poem or song that you like.  A while back, a woman I needed a pw for used lines from an aria in one of Mozart's operas -- in Italian.

Just take the first letters of the words, case included, and all the punctuation and stuff, and that's your pw.  You may need to add a few numerals to make the bank's pw checker happy.  When you want to use it, run the line(s) through your mind, and you remember the pw.

If anyone on this list knows why that won't work, I'd sure appreciate knowing about it...

--
Glenn English

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