<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt">Has anyone seen this website? (generating passwords)<br><br><br>https://www.passwordcard.org/en<div><span><br></span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> "kent-request@mailman.lug.org.uk" <kent-request@mailman.lug.org.uk><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> kent@mailman.lug.org.uk <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, 26 March 2013, 12:00<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Kent Digest, Vol 407, Issue 3<br> </font> </div> <br>Send Kent mailing list submissions to<br> <a
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McCarthy)<br><br><br>----------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>Message: 1<br>Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 07:54:31 -0400<br>From: Colin McCarthy <<a ymailto="mailto:binarysignal@gmail.com" href="mailto:binarysignal@gmail.com">binarysignal@gmail.com</a>><br>To: Kent Linux User Group - General Topics <<a ymailto="mailto:kent@mailman.lug.org.uk" href="mailto:kent@mailman.lug.org.uk">kent@mailman.lug.org.uk</a>><br>Subject: Re: [Klug-general] password testing/cracking<br>Message-ID:<br> <<a ymailto="mailto:CAChEnngJaTkrL7QW-bEtLPsv7tvh3_WYYbgt47krzZ44Qg0b3g@mail.gmail.com" href="mailto:CAChEnngJaTkrL7QW-bEtLPsv7tvh3_WYYbgt47krzZ44Qg0b3g@mail.gmail.com">CAChEnngJaTkrL7QW-bEtLPsv7tvh3_WYYbgt47krzZ44Qg0b3g@mail.gmail.com</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"<br><br>On 26 March 2013 05:53, Dan Attwood <<a ymailto="mailto:danattwood@gmail.com"
href="mailto:danattwood@gmail.com">danattwood@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>> <a href="https://xkcd.com/936/" target="_blank">https://xkcd.com/936/</a><br>><br>> is probably as good as explanation as you'll likely to get<br>><br><br>I use a combination of words like this system. It's surprisingly easy to<br>remember a 16+ character password that way.<br><br>This article although incredible long is extremely interesting on the<br>subject of passwords<br><a href="http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/11/ff-mat-honan-password-hacker/all/" target="_blank">http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/11/ff-mat-honan-password-hacker/all/</a><br><br>It does not matter now long your password is if it's still easy to trick a<br>machine or Apple agent into resetting your account.<br><br><br><br>><br>> On 26 March 2013 09:42, james morris <<a ymailto="mailto:jwm.art.net@gmail.com" href="mailto:jwm.art.net@gmail.com">jwm.art.net@gmail.com</a>>
wrote:<br>><br>>> On 26 March 2013 07:07, Gary Yeames-Smith <<a ymailto="mailto:gary@hotel-media.tv" href="mailto:gary@hotel-media.tv">gary@hotel-media.tv</a>> wrote:<br>>> > Another method for password creation is to create a long memorable<br>>> sentence<br>>> > and then take the 1st letter of each word. This results in a easy to<br>>> > remember password which looks completely random to other people.<br>>><br>>> Why not use the memorable sentence itself? You've still got the first<br>>> letter of each word, but as additional work, all the rest of them too<br>>> ;-)<br>>><br>>> Which is what I wanted to investigate but I've got a bit stuck as I<br>>> haven't yet managed to crack such blinders as 'crackmenow'.<br>>><br>>> And as far as memorable sentence creation goes, I'd take a leaf out of<br>>> William S Burroughs' book, and how memorable
sentences are constructed<br>>> by the holders of record-breaking memory feats. Suggest seemingly<br>>> nonsense sentences which have some sort of private/internal<br>>> logic/association too it to the user who came up with it.<br>>><br>>> Which will still be far too much for my parents to cope with.<br>>><br>>> _______________________________________________<br>>> Kent mailing list<br>>> <a ymailto="mailto:Kent@mailman.lug.org.uk" href="mailto:Kent@mailman.lug.org.uk">Kent@mailman.lug.org.uk</a><br>>> <a href="https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/kent" target="_blank">https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/kent</a><br>>><br>><br>><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Kent mailing list<br>> <a ymailto="mailto:Kent@mailman.lug.org.uk" href="mailto:Kent@mailman.lug.org.uk">Kent@mailman.lug.org.uk</a><br>> <a
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