Re: Writing passwords down

[Chris Green <cl@isbd.net>]

John Hasler <john@sugarbit.com> wrote:
> Karen writes:
> > Well, I do not use hundreds.  Still that little black book is,
> > speaking personally, far safer to my mind then any digital solution.
> 
> If you are going to use a little black book why not just use random
> passwords?  pwgen -s 10 and write it down.
> 
Because a long series of random characters is incredibly difficult to
type accurately!

Horses for courses, I enter login passwords/passphrases quite frequently (lots of
different systems that I ssh to) long, unmemorable, passwords would be
useless.

For the odd password that needs to be **extra** secure I suppose I
could use a written down password.

-- 
Chris Green
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