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  1. Newsgroups: comp.security.misc
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!wupost!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!news.cs.indiana.edu!umn.edu!chaos.cs.umn.edu!bill
  3. From: bill@chaos.cs.umn.edu (Hari Seldon)
  4. Subject: Re: Keeping track of a lot of passwords
  5. Message-ID: <bill.711857985@chaos.cs.umn.edu>
  6. Sender: news@news2.cis.umn.edu (Usenet News Administration)
  7. Nntp-Posting-Host: chaos.cs.umn.edu
  8. Organization: University of Minnesota
  9. References: <2a510a22@babyoil.ftp.com> <709960260@romeo.cs.duke.edu> <PMETZGER.92Jul8120712@snark.shearson.com> <21106@rpp386.lonestar.org> <1992Jul9.035150.3220@qiclab.scn.rain.com> <1992Jul9.180755.16913@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> <62453@cup.portal.com> <14jsa6INNd1a@iraul1.ira.uka.de>
  10. Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 02:19:45 GMT
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  12.  
  13. In <14jsa6INNd1a@iraul1.ira.uka.de> S_TITZ@iravcl.ira.uka.de (Olaf Titz) writes:
  14.  
  15. >In <62453@cup.portal.com> ts@cup.portal.com writes:
  16. >[...]
  17. >>  How do you keep track of all these passwords?  Using the same password
  18. >>  all over the place is dangerous, but how can you remember several dozen
  19. >>  or more passwords, especially if the systems enforce restrictions on
  20. >>  the passwords?
  21. >[...]
  22. >>  --Tim Smith
  23.  
  24. >I know a guy who writes down all of his numerous passwords in his
  25. >notebook, in plaintext. The catch: he does so in Japanese letters,
  26. >assuming that hardly anyone (here in Germany) knows how to read them.
  27. does this not fall into security by obscurity????
  28.  
  29. bill pociengel
  30. --
  31. bill@chaos.cs.umn.edu
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