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- From: S_TITZ@iravcl.ira.uka.de (Olaf Titz)
- Newsgroups: comp.security.misc
- Subject: Re: Keeping track of a lot of passwords
- Date: 22 Jul 1992 14:45:26 GMT
- Organization: Fachschaft Informatik, Uni Karlsruhe
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- In-Reply-To: ts@cup.portal.com's message of Sun, 19 Jul 92 23:36:40 PDT
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- In <62453@cup.portal.com> ts@cup.portal.com writes:
- [...]
- > How do you keep track of all these passwords? Using the same password
- > all over the place is dangerous, but how can you remember several dozen
- > or more passwords, especially if the systems enforce restrictions on
- > the passwords?
- [...]
- > --Tim Smith
-
- I know a guy who writes down all of his numerous passwords in his
- notebook, in plaintext. The catch: he does so in Japanese letters,
- assuming that hardly anyone (here in Germany) knows how to read them.
-
- Security analysis is left to the reader ;-)
-
- MfG,
- Olaf
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