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rv77ax·

i use 2 grams of 'salt' on my password plus the site name where i want to login. it's simple an easy to remember.

http://journal.kilabit.org/salt-n-pepper

how do you "create" your password ?

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Brain cells should not be wasted on rote password generation and memorization.

Brain cells should be used to remember important things. Most important things are conveyed by i.e. poems. Although nobody learns literature citings by heart in the era of wikipedia, a straightforward way to have a strong password is to pick e.g. the first letters of each line of a poem (aka passphrase you should already know), as described in the man:

When choosing a new password, make sure it's unrelated to any previous password. Use long passwords (say 8 characters long). You might use a word pair with punctuation inserted, a passphrase (an understandable sequence of words), or the first letter of each word in a passphrase.

http://linux.die.net/man/1/passwd ...RTFM has also been subject of debate for ages...

I appreciate the lofty sentiments, but password managers are doing a good job generating hard passwords and remembering them.

...then you upgrade to snowy, and later realize that a given lib is not compatible with your favourite password manager and shut yourself out until you manage to restore your access. For generating hard passwords, you might as well go for ssh keys and manage those. But tastes and customs differ...

Thanks for giving my passwords away.

:-)

Now I have to find a new strategy. Seriously, it's a pity we let such a poor (from an usability viewpoint) design stand.

Interesting - I've been using the method for a while now and I thought I'm the only one who does it :-)

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