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From Joe <joe@jretrading.com>
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Subject Re: Writing passwords down
Date Thu, 19 Dec 2024 12:20:01 +0100
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On Thu, 19 Dec 2024 08:56:00 +0000
Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> wrote:

> John Hasler <john@sugarbit.com> wrote:
> > Karen writes:  
> > > Well, I do not use hundreds.  Still that little black book is,
> > > speaking personally, far safer to my mind then any digital
> > > solution.  
> > 
> > If you are going to use a little black book why not just use random
> > passwords?  pwgen -s 10 and write it down.
> >   
> Because a long series of random characters is incredibly difficult to
> type accurately!
> 
> Horses for courses, I enter login passwords/passphrases quite
> frequently (lots of different systems that I ssh to) long,
> unmemorable, passwords would be useless.
> 
> For the odd password that needs to be **extra** secure I suppose I
> could use a written down password.
> 

Something nobody has mentioned in connection with remembering passwords
is how often they are used. Many passwords I use are created and then
not used for another year or more. There's no way to remember anything
of any complexity at all over that period with no refreshing, whereas
even quite a random and complicated one will start to stick if used
every day.

-- 
Joe

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                Re: Writing passwords down John Hasler <john@sugarbit.com> - 2024-12-18 19:00 +0100
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                Re: Writing passwords down John Hasler <john@sugarbit.com> - 2024-12-18 20:10 +0100
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                Re: Writing passwords down Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> - 2024-12-18 20:30 +0100
                Re: Writing passwords down <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-12-19 06:00 +0100
                Re: Writing passwords down Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> - 2024-12-18 20:30 +0100
                Re: Writing passwords down John Hasler <john@sugarbit.com> - 2024-12-18 23:10 +0100
                Re: Writing passwords down Karen Lewellen <klewellen@shellworld.net> - 2024-12-19 02:20 +0100
                Re: Writing passwords down Karen Lewellen <klewellen@shellworld.net> - 2024-12-19 02:20 +0100
                Re: Writing passwords down John Hasler <john@sugarbit.com> - 2024-12-19 02:30 +0100
                Re: Writing passwords down Karen Lewellen <klewellen@shellworld.net> - 2024-12-19 02:40 +0100
                Re: Writing passwords down Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> - 2024-12-19 10:20 +0100
                Re: Writing passwords down Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2024-12-19 12:20 +0100
                Re: Writing passwords down Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2024-12-20 04:30 +0100
                Re: Writing passwords down George at Clug <Clug@goproject.info> - 2024-12-20 05:40 +0100
                Re: Writing passwords down <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-12-20 05:40 +0100
                Re: Writing passwords down Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> - 2024-12-20 06:10 +0100
                Re: Writing passwords down Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> - 2024-12-20 10:50 +0100
                Re: Writing passwords down George at Clug <Clug@goproject.info> - 2024-12-21 01:40 +0100
                Re: Writing passwords down Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2024-12-21 04:30 +0100
                Re: Writing passwords down Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> - 2024-12-20 10:30 +0100
                Re: Writing passwords down Michael Kjörling <c9bc136c6063@ewoof.net> - 2024-12-18 10:20 +0100
                Re: Writing passwords down <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-12-18 10:20 +0100
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