Re: Can't create a password successfully.
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On Sunday, April 3, 2022 7:37 PM, David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> wrote:
> Mozart is famous enough that I expect transcripts of all of his works
> exist.
Yes, but they don't know it's Mozart. And he wrote lots of pieces with words.
> And, that algorithm is common.
I kinda thought it probably was. It's pretty obvious. The idea is to generate a bunch of gibberish that could be easily remembered.
> it's just a question of password length.
Yeah. As with all pws, length is important. It could be as long as you like.
> I expect that serious crackers already have such.
I don't think so. It's not a word, so how could it be in a dictionary? And a dictionary of the letters of all the things it might have come from would be a pretty big task.
> Using a unique and unpublished phrase or sentence would preclude
> creating a dictionary. But, is there such a thing as a "unique and
> unpublished phrase or sentence" and how do you remember it forever?
Well, it wouldn't work if the line is unpublished -- like you say, it'd miss the 'remember it forever' part. It needs to be something that's already remembered. And there are so many places it could come from: Plato, the writings of the Buddha, 1950s rock, a couple lines of COBOL, one or another translation of something, etc. Depends on the user's background. It's something from the user's memory.
I think the password would, in effect, be random to anybody but the user.
But like I said -- I think...
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Glenn English
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