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From: swh@hpcupt1.HP.COM (Steve Harrold)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: Re: Auto-generated Passwords
Message-ID: <-286629998@hpcupt1.HP.COM>
Date: 9 Oct 89 15:30:22 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
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Re: Random passwords

Compuserve, when I last used it a while ago, had a similar algorithm.

You were asked to select two words that were not related to each other, 
and join them together with a non-alphameric character.

Examples would be:

	access+potato
	green%laughter
	shipper(heels

This allowed you to select something easy for you to remember, but made
it extremely difficult for someone doing an exhaustive search.  Of course,
you need not use English words, or even human words at all.