Password Choices
Jerry Carlin
jmc at ptsfa.PacBell.COM
Sat Jul 23 08:53:54 AEST 1988
In article <16595 at brl-adm.ARPA> JPLILER at simtel20.arpa (John R. Pliler) writes:
>>>Why not use a *random* password generator?
Just make sure that the algorithm generates a LARGE number of
possibilities and is not known. If someone gets it and it generates too
small a number (such as 10 to the 10th) of possibilities someone can
easily find out all your passwords.
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