Re:Toward Better Master Passwords
by tomjen3 on Saturday June 25, 2011 @03:15PM
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I use a similar system, except that instead of remembering randomly choosen words I use pwgen to generate a string of symbols and then construct a story from them (human brains are pretty good a remembering stories.
Say I get IJC8M9yh I would then make a sentence like Ingrid, Joel and Carol Ate Margriths 9 year horse.
(The example given is more tricky than most, since I had to add an extra word). The idea is to take each letter and convert it into a word, leaving numbers and special characters as they are (or use them creatively, as in the example above) and if the letter is a capital letter, use a proper noun in the sentence.
Say I get IJC8M9yh I would then make a sentence like Ingrid, Joel and Carol Ate Margriths 9 year horse.
(The example given is more tricky than most, since I had to add an extra word). The idea is to take each letter and convert it into a word, leaving numbers and special characters as they are (or use them creatively, as in the example above) and if the letter is a capital letter, use a proper noun in the sentence.