From: Roger Bryner <bryner@atlas.chem.utah.edu>
Date: Sun, 3 Jul 94 18:04:58 PDT
Subject: Re: Password Difficulties
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On Sun, 3 Jul 1994 smb@research.att.com wrote:
> The initial tests were on passphrases of lengths from 12 to 20, as I
> recall.  The phrases were created by chosing random words from
> /usr/dict/words -- and the resulting pass-phrases were exceedingly
> weird, which may have contributed to folks difficulty in typing them.
> Not that the scores were bad, but they weren't great.
Try using 4 dicts next time, adverb, adj, noun, and verb.

Afterall, "wombats drill telephones with vitamin b12 ,but ports know 
shelves only with cyano groups." sounds nice, but "sofa loveseat table lamp 
chair shelf coatrack futon" is not nice at all, and less secure.

Another option is to let the user page through 3-4 options untill they 
find one they "like" in that position.

Roger,