On Sun, 7 Nov 2004, Carlos E. R. wrote:
If anyone has a suggestion for making an 8 character password that is reasonably safe or hard to guess w/o being too hard for me to remember , I welcome such suggestions.
You could try using a mixture of non-standard characters, ie not just all alphabetic chars, such as: A..Z uppercase 0..9 digits and any other characters the password setting program will accept, such as: !"£$%^&*()_+{}[]~<>?/|\ That should foil any dictionary hacking attempts. I find using an alpha-char mixture quite secure. It would also help if the default length for the password setting program could be made a bit longer, say 12 chars at least. Chat to the admin guys and see if this can be made possible. I keep all my usernames and passwords on a floppy disk, and store that in a secure place, as I would NEVER be able to remember them all! HTH - Keith Roberts