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Article #152Re: Keeping track of a lot of passwords
From: Olaf Titz
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 14:45
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 14:45
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In <62453@cup.portal.com> ts@cup.portal.com writes:
[...]
> How do you keep track of all these passwords? Using the same password
> all over the place is dangerous, but how can you remember several dozen
> or more passwords, especially if the systems enforce restrictions on
> the passwords?
[...]
> --Tim Smith
I know a guy who writes down all of his numerous passwords in his
notebook, in plaintext. The catch: he does so in Japanese letters,
assuming that hardly anyone (here in Germany) knows how to read them.
Security analysis is left to the reader ;-)
MfG,
Olaf
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!qt.cs.utexas.edu!yale.edu!ira.uka.de!uka!uka!news From: S_TITZ@iravcl.ira.uka.de (Olaf Titz) Newsgroups: comp.security.misc Subject: Re: Keeping track of a lot of passwords Date: 22 Jul 1992 14:45:26 GMT Organization: Fachschaft Informatik, Uni Karlsruhe Lines: 24 Distribution: world Message-ID: <14jsa6INNd1a@iraul1.ira.uka.de> References: <2a510a22@babyoil.ftp.com> <709960260@romeo.cs.duke.edu> <PMETZGER.92Jul8120712@snark.shearson.com> <21106@rpp386.lonestar.org> <1992Jul9.035150.3220@qiclab.scn.rain.com> <1992Jul9.180755.16913@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> <62453@cup.portal.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: irav1.ira.uka.de X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.23 In-Reply-To: ts@cup.portal.com's message of Sun, 19 Jul 92 23:36:40 PDT