Re: Linking Password Length to Write-down probability

["Dan Tesch" <dan.tesch () comcast net>]

Following this thread makes me think about the proprietary app(s) my company
uses that don't allow anything longer than an eight character psswd. and to 
top
it off isn't case sens!

> It seems obvious that the longer/more complex the
> password, the more likely the user is to write it down,
> so I'm not sure that such a study would really yield any
> new insight. What I've taken to doing is stressing the idea
> of a passphrase instead of a password, then using the
> initial letters of each word, and mixing caps.other characters
> as needed for complexity, so:
>
> "My dog used to have fleas but he ate them" becomes "Mdu2Hfbh8T"
>
> 10 characters, rather than 8, upper-lower-numeric, but still a
> password the user can be reasonably expected to remember.
>
> dcj2
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> Stian


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