RE: How to preserve password change date

** Reply to note from boothm@ibm.net Thu, 20 Nov 97 19:08:28 -0500

> What are good, useful tips to give to users to help them with their choice
> in passwords? Perhaps we can compile a handy-dandy list to be passed out? 
> My favorite tip is:
>   
> - Use the first letter from each word in an easily memorized phrase.  For
> example: "I am John, aged 32" would become  "IaJa32".

I tend to like the two words and a digit method. 

1dogboy
dog1boy
dogboy1

All encrypt differently, and I can sequence through the style (digit word
word, then word digit word, etc.) as old ones expire. This allows me to use
the same couple of words for an awful long time (since I will also cycle
digits 1 through 0). When I am at a new site, I pick some two word set that
is on my mind. For instance, I might take "dumb1tube" if I get stuck on a
green screen. 

I have never explored this to find if it is scientifically safe, but I have
been reasonably successful with not forgetting a large number of passwords
that I have had to keep. The times I have botched up were when I had
decided to count down from 0 instead of up from 1 and forgot what number I
was at.

> Booth Martin     
 

Chris Rehm
Mr.AS400@ibm.net

How often can you afford to be unexpectedly out of business?
Get an AS/400.
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