PASSWORD GUESSING

[Gordon Vickers]

In article <3126 at rti.UUCP> trt at rti.UUCP (Thomas Truscott) writes:
-> I like passwords that are created by using the first letter in each word
-> of a sentence such as:
-> 
-> 	"I like eating hot soup in the winter"
-> 
-> So, the passwd would be "ilehsitw" ...

       The advice I see most often, and use myself is to simply pick
   two unrelated words that are seperated by a symbol, with the entire
   password being seven or eight charectors in length.  Care to figure
   what the odds are of a hacker breaking it ? 

Gordon Vickers 408/991-5370 (Sunnyvale,Ca); {mips|pyramid|philabs}!prls!gordon
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