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Re: password policy and system rules

On Wed, 7 Mar 2007 22:14:46 -0500
PaulMmn <PaulMmn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


My favorite password generator is to open a book, magazine, or other 
work of literature to a random page, close my eyes, and point.  The 
word + page number becomes the password.


I have to advise against this practice. Dictionary words followed by
small numbers make terrible passwords.

It's best to use as many characters as one can comfortably remember,
never using known words, and making use of as many character classes
as possible.

A decent password might be derived from the first sentence of my last
paragraph, Ib2uam(a1.

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