From: Steve Ewing 

On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 20:57:13 -0500, Judy Folkenberg
 wrote:

> Do you have certain "systems" ie wife and kids's names, birthdates or
> adaptations of such, or taking such things as botanical terms or
> zoological terms (or the terms in any kind of exising system) and
> adapting them.  Or do you try and make passwords as complicated as
> possible, ie mixing keyboard symbols with numbers and letters?

I have been setting up folks on a new system that requires complex
passwords, with 3-month changes and a 24-password memory.  They have to
contain three of the following: uppercase, lowercase, numbers, and symbols.
 I have recommended using a mnemonic sentence (like Every Good Boy Does
Fine) and mixing cases/substituting numbers (3 for 'e', etc.). Another way
is to pick one good password and tack on the date: k1AAtuDEC03  and change
the month/year each time you have to change it: in three months change it
to k1AAtuMAR04.  And so on.

--
Steve 
http://www.qmss.com/~sewing

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