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Re:The Usability of Passwords by asb on Sunday May 17, 2009 @06:47AM (#613269)
Does anyone have a good algorithm for using a password template/seed for different sites? Choosing a template, say 5_h_7_s_9_j, and replacing the _ with characters from the site's name works (and you could increment the characters or whatever), but if anyone gets two of your passwords it's pretty obvious there's a pattern and it's not particularly hard to work out the relationship between the site name and the password.
Re:The Usability of Passwords by niyazpk on Sunday May 17, 2009 @07:59AM (#613306)
Still this is better than having the same password for every website where the pattern is infinitely obvious!