Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!hsdndev!cmcl2!adm!news From: IFAC%SNYCENVM.BITNET@cornellc.cit.cornell.edu ( FRANK CALLUCCI) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: (none) Message-ID: <26522@adm.brl.mil> Date: 10 Apr 91 18:10:00 GMT Sender: news@adm.brl.mil Lines: 8 Hi Wizards, I feel that there is a simple way to pick a password without being vulnerable to people decoding it. I feel that the trick is to use control characters. Control characters cannot be displayed or printed. If you were to use the password WIZARD for instance you would use ( WIZARD) and there would be no way that anyone could decode it. Frank Callucci