Re: OT: 2d password

2009/4/20 Christof Schulze <christof.schulze_at_gmx.net>:
> Am Montag 20 April 2009 11:28:02 schrieb Kỳ Anh, Huỳnh:
>> [ ways of generating passwords]
>>
>> Finally I get into 2-d moving on the keyboard as described in my first
>> post. I check some passwords in http://www.testyourpassword.com/ and see
>> that some stupid patterns on keyboard show a "STRONG" status. I event
>> get the BEST password with some simple moving around symbols and
>> letters.
> I good way to remember secure passwords was presented in the uptimes
> magazine a while ago in an article about passwords and their security.
>
> Good passwords contain a lot of entropy.
> Also the entropy of letters in the beginning of words seems to be higher
> than the entropy towards the end of words in western languages.
> The proposal that the author Thomas Maus is making is this:
>
> Pick a sentence and take the first character(s) from each word to be your
> password.
>
> Example
> "I like doing laundry wednesday evening 8pm."
>
> the resulting password would be:
> "Ildlwe8p"
>
> It is easy to remember because the sentence is natural language. Also it is
> fairly easy to come up with.
> This article provides some good insights into the effectivity of password
> policies. The bottom line is that the way these policies are used today
> cause weaker passwords because they work against the user. In the end some
> proposals are made what to do to obtain better passwords and how to
> implement a policy for stronger passwords.

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