Re: Secure passwords?

"nemo_outis" <abc@xxxxxxx> wrote in
news:Xns971E87AD52377abcxyzcom@xxxxxxxxx:

....
> The nice thing about such passphrases is that they can often be
> "assembled" in the input window just as I did above, rather than
> entered directly in final form.
....


A few things I forgot to add:

"Assembling" a passphrase in an password input window can be severely
hampered if the window is blanked with asterisks. Here's a trick: assemble
the passphrase in the *user name* window and then cut and paste it to the
password window (afterwards, go back and fill in the user name).

For the theoretically inclined, the Shannon entropy of ordinary English
sentences is about 1.2 to 1.4 bits per character. This gives an alternate
method of calculating passphrase entropy.

Regards,



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