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From: rusty@cadnetix.COM (Rusty Carruth)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: PASSWORD GUESSING
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Date: 19 Sep 89 22:21:57 GMT
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In article <24888@prls.UUCP> gordon@prls.UUCP (Gordon Vickers) writes:

>       The advice I see most often, and use myself is to simply pick
>   two unrelated words that are seperated by a symbol,...

How about two unrelated words interspersed with each other?  Thus
"PASSWORD guessing" becomes PgAuSeSsWsOiRnDg.  However, it took
me about 30 seconds to type that, and I had to continually refer to
both what I had typed and to the two words I was using.  Oh, well, never
mind.

>.....  Care to figure
>   what the odds are of a hacker breaking it ? 
>
I'm surprised we have not seen the answer yet :-)


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