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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Jerry Carlin (415) 823-2441 {bellcore,sun,ames,pyramid}!pacbell!jmc
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