From: Mike Johnson second login <exabyte!gedora!mikej2@uunet.uu.net>
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 94 09:50:14 PDT
To: gedora!uunet!asu.edu!Ben.Goren@uunet.uu.net
Subject: Re: Security for under a buck fifty
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On Tue, 12 Jul 1994 uunet!asu.edu!Ben.Goren@gedora wrote:

> ... 
> The tradeoff is between number of characters needed (length of passphrase)
> and diversity of character set. I'd probably have better luck with the
> mnemonic if I didn't have to fit in a whole string of %*$@!, but that
> should probably be a user setting.

Good point.  I prefer the )*&^$!(~ stuff in there, but some may not.

> ... 
> Another possibility: have a dictionary of different parts of speech and
> assemble them in order. For a short example, each passphrase could be in an
> order such as:
> 
> Article adjective modifier noun verb article adjective modifier noun.

Good idea.

> Umph. I think I need to start making time to write code, if I want to see
> this work.

Go for it!