<div dir="ltr">Exactly! And thank you for the share, I missed that one! <div><br></div><div>The point of the New Scientist article was that more complex passwords are inevitably written down or recorded somewhere and that defeated the entire memorization process. When you switch sites, you can pick a second random word. When you are forced to change passwords, you can change the concatenating symbol etc. Embrace Klingon or another non-English language and you have a very secure password to use on Memory Alpha terminals. </div>
<div><br></div><div>It is important to randomise small words, not go with what is familiar. Humour is good, especially with visual images to help memorise.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
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<div dir="ltr">Thanks Roland, <div><br></div><div>You mean, a bit like <a href="http://correcthorsebatterystaple.net/" target="_blank">http://correcthorsebatterystaple.net/</a> ?<div><br></div><div>Inspired by the classic cartoon <a href="http://xkcd.com/936/" target="_blank">http://xkcd.com/936/</a> which is worth having on your classroom wall.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I showed this to my class a few years back, and most talked with their parents about it. As a result, many of them changed their passwords for work computers etc. A year later many of them still remember "correcthorsebatterystapler" so I suspect they actually used THAT as their password. I assume it's now an early candidate in any password hacking process. </div>
<div><br></div><div><<Irony Meter goes off-scale>></div><div><br></div><div>Ken</div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="im"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 9:20 AM, Roland Gesthuizen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rgesthuizen@gmail.com" target="_blank">rgesthuizen@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div>Siri, voice authentication for Roland alpha omega five</div><div><br></div><div>Spot the error hinted in the comments? Nearly all good password systems have a brief lockout after a few attempts. This disables any brute force approach. Foolish systems create obscure passwords that are hard to remember and often written down. Pitiful systems stand idle as a user pours an entire dictionary then more in to authenticate. Following an interesting password report in the New Scientist, I still recommend for my students a triangulated generation algorithm of two short random words with a symbol to concatenate and logical variation between sites. They don't forget it.<br>
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