PASSWORD GUESSING

Nicholas Jacobs nick at toro.UUCP
Wed Aug 16 09:02:10 AEST 1989


A method that I'm fond of is using romanized foreign words. Particularly
if you know words that are not likely to be commonly known. This avoids
the "run the Unix dictionary" syndrome. Of course, your users may not
appreciate be asked to remember passwords in Serbo-Croatian or Turkish! :-)

Nicholas Jacobs
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