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Re:The 4+1 Tier Password System for Staying Safe and Sane by chetan51 on Friday August 12, 2011 @01:10AM (#2876074)
Good point. What would you use as a suffix then?
Re:The 4+1 Tier Password System for Staying Safe and Sane by nfm on Friday August 12, 2011 @05:02AM (#2876529)
You could transpose the word in some way. So maybe move each letter two keys to the right - 'p' becomes ']', 'a' is 'd' and so on. They you end up with ']di]dl' instead of 'paypal', which is a bit more obscure. It might not work so well if the rest of your passphrase is made up of dictionary words.

I'm a bit paranoid though - most compromises aren't targeted and if a hacker gets a list of 20,000 hashes to crack they aren't going to inspect them individually.

Re:The 4+1 Tier Password System for Staying Safe and Sane by kilburn on Friday August 12, 2011 @04:08AM (#2876399)
1. Switch your keyboard to dvorak (can be done with a key combination in all OSes)

2. Write "paypal" as you would in a querty keyboard

The result is both easy to remember and very hard to guess ;)