From: Geoffrey (esoteric3times25.net)
Date: Wed Aug 02 2006 - 06:33:51 CDT

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John Andersen wrote:
> On Tuesday 01 August 2006 07:34, Geoffrey wrote:
>> Do the
>> typical substitutions and you can generate a relatively obscure password:
>>
>> There are 11 players on a football team and 9 on a baseball team.
>>
>> Ta11poafta9oabt.
>
> What's he talking about?
>
> BTFOM.

Substitutions as in a number one for the lowercase 'l', a zero for the
lower case 'o', the number 5 for the lowercase 's'. I didn't do any in
the above example because of the numbers that already existed in the phrase.

Point is, it's hard for anyone to remember a long password unless it's
something simple, say, their name. With the above approach anyone can
remember a phrase that makes sense to them. Even if their spelling is
incorrect, if they are consistent, it still works.

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Until later, Geoffrey

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security will deserve neither and lose both. - Benjamin Franklin

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