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Subject: Re: Passwords
From: Rich Pieri <rich . pieri @ prescienttech . com>
Date: 19 Aug 1998 11:21:03 -0400
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In-reply-to: bill@ecology.bio.dfo.ca's message of "Wed, 19 Aug 1998 10:05:38 -0300 (ADT)"
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Bill Silvert writes:

> Oh come, it is easier than that. AOL has a simple password generator,
> just concatenate two randomly chosen four-letter words. Like "fish" and
> "duck" give "fishduck".

How useless... a dictionary search will pick that out in about 30 seconds.
If you are going to generate passwords, do it right: build a list of
typable characters and pick randomly from that list.

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-- 
Rich Pieri <rich.pieri@prescienttech.com> / Ingredients of Happy Fun Ball
Sysmonster, Unix Wrangler                / include an unknown glowing
Prescient Technologies, Inc.            / substance which fell to Earth,
I speak for myself, not PTI or SWEC    / presumably from outer space.



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