[Klug-general] password testing/cracking

[james morris]

On 26 March 2013 07:07, Gary Yeames-Smith <gary at hotel-media.tv> wrote:
> Another method for password creation is to create a long memorable sentence
> and then take the 1st letter of each word. This results in a easy to
> remember password which looks completely random to other people.

Why not use the memorable sentence itself? You've still got the first
letter of each word, but as additional work, all the rest of them too
;-)

Which is what I wanted to investigate but I've got a bit stuck as I
haven't yet managed to crack such blinders as 'crackmenow'.

And as far as memorable sentence creation goes, I'd take a leaf out of
William S Burroughs' book, and how memorable sentences are constructed
by the holders of record-breaking memory feats. Suggest seemingly
nonsense sentences which have some sort of private/internal
logic/association too it to the user who came up with it.

Which will still be far too much for my parents to cope with.