RE: How to preserve password change date

["Kahn, David (kahn)" <KAHN@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I tend to use word association to generate the next password. For
example, if the password is "horse", the next one might be "racing", and
then "formula1", "damonhill", "driver", "screw", "ball" and so on ad
infinitum. This makes a long sequence of password changes amazingly easy
to remember.

To make sure there are digits in the password I will either add them
somewhere, or replace "i" with "1" and "o" with "0". Thus the list
becomes "h0rse", "rac1ng", "dam0nh1ll", "dr1ver", "screw69" (geddit?
;-)) "8ball" and so on.

P.S. Don't bother trying to hack me with these passwords, Vlad, these
are just random examples I've never actually used. :-)

Dave Kahn, TCO, Kazakstan
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kahn@tengizchevroil.com   (to November 25)
dkahn@cix.compulink.co.uk (from November 26)


>-----Original Message-----
>From:  Chris Rehm [SMTP:Mr.AS400@ibm.net]
>Sent:  Saturday, 22 November, 1997 23:27
>To:    MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
>Subject:       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     
> 
>
>
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