Password choices

Karl Heuer karl at haddock.ISC.COM
Thu Jul 14 01:14:08 AEST 1988


In article <4396 at fluke.COM> inc at tc.fluke.COM (Gary Benson) writes:
>Any other ideas about how to remember what you changed to?

I use a different password on each of my major accounts.  I have a program
that, given N-1 of the passwords, will output the missing one.  So I'm safe
until I forget two passwords at the same time.

(No, the program itself doesn't know my passwords.  It only knows the XOR of
a base-95 encoding of them.  The source code and data file are readable.)

Karl W. Z. Heuer (ima!haddock!karl or karl at haddock.isc.com), The Walking Lint



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