Xref: utzoo comp.unix.wizards:12843 news.sysadmin:1672 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!ukma!cwjcc!hal!ncoast!allbery From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,news.sysadmin Subject: Re: Worm/Passwords Message-ID: <13169@ncoast.UUCP> Date: 24 Nov 88 18:27:57 GMT References: <22401@cornell.UUCP> <4627@rayssd.ray.com> <251@ispi.UUCP> <4668@mtgzz.att.com> Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) Followup-To: comp.unix.wizards Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh Lines: 29 As quoted from <4668@mtgzz.att.com> by avr@mtgzz.att.com (a.v.reed): +--------------- | psychology" types. Yes, there are good programs that generate passwords | which incorporate a random element but can be remembered by humans | anyway. To design such a program, you have to know not only what is | difficult to crack, but also what is easy for people to remember. +--------------- I once hacked together a program that used tables of letters which commonly followed one another in English to create random but (usually) pronounceable passwords. I don't know how anyone else's brain works (heck, I'm fuzzy on how *mine* works ;-) but I find pronounceable passwords MUCH easier to remember. The program is dust now, along with the computer it ran on (OSI SuperBoard II, 8K BASIC!) but I should be able to recreate the program with a little thinking. A possible enhancement is to use phonemes instead of letters, thus increasing the chances of a pronounceable password. It could be combined with a phoneme-to-letter table which could randomly (or maybe not so randomly, depends on how much time I want to put in it) choose between alternative representations (f/ph, etc.) of a phoneme. ++Brandon -- Brandon S. Allbery, comp.sources.misc moderator and one admin of ncoast PA UN*X uunet!hal.cwru.edu!ncoast!allbery ncoast!allbery@hal.cwru.edu allberyb@skybridge.sdi.cwru.edu allbery@uunet.uu.net comp.sources.misc is moving off ncoast -- please do NOT send submissions direct Send comp.sources.misc submissions to comp-sources-misc@.