Re: [libreoffice-users] password tricks: was Re:Signing Documents with a personal Certificate

Hi :)
Yes, i made up an "algorithm" which i then apply to whatever thing it is that needs a password.  
You know the sort of things, swapping the 3rd and 4th letter, adding 1 character along on the 
keyboard.  Adding symbols after certain characters.  That sort of thing.  I'd be really stuffed if 
i got to a public access place that didn't have a qwerty keyboard!  

Anyway, the first algorithm i used i kept for about a decade but i made a new one fairly recently.  
Some sites started saying my 1st algorithm was really weak but others would say it was impossibly 
strong.  The new one ranges from medium-high upwards.  
Regards from
Tom :)  



--- On Thu, 21/6/12, Felmon Davis <davisf@union.edu> wrote:

From: Felmon Davis <davisf@union.edu>
Subject: [libreoffice-users] password tricks: was Re:Signing Documents with a personal Certificate
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Date: Thursday, 21 June, 2012, 12:46

On Thu, 21 Jun 2012, Tom Davies wrote:

> Hi :)
> Copy&paste?  Store in a file tucked away somewhere safely but with a name that is NOT something 
> like "List of passwords.txt".  Something that seems to fit in with other files in the same folder 
> but that sticks out to you as being odd. 
> Regards from
> Tom :) 

for this particular case, use the last letters of your names (or a 
friend's or lover's names), a year when you met your favorite honey, 
and your favorite letter of the alphabet.

the codes for my passwords are stored in a file I keep at various 
spots but in addition I sometimes encrypt it.

I say 'codes' because I have certain elements which I combine to make 
different passwords and I have names for these elements which are only 
meaningful to me. so 'new-count' means a certain four-digit number I 
know and 'old-count' is another, thus my password file may contain. 
'newcount + oldcount'.

obviously this is just some kind of redundancy and if you cannot 
remember your codes, you have to file them away too but perhaps on 
paper in a desk-drawer or something.

just got a bankcard for a bank in Germany; nothing to do but to note 
it down somewhere.

F.

> --- On Thu, 21/6/12, Steve Edmonds <steve.edmonds@ptglobal.com> wrote:
>
> From: Steve Edmonds <steve.edmonds@ptglobal.com>
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Signing Documents with a personal Certificate
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org
> Date: Thursday, 21 June, 2012, 8:50
>
> 1 lower case letter, 1 upper case letter, a number, white space and a
> misc symbol, a second additional point for having it over 30 characters
> and don't include any section of your name, or password or email address
> or if it matches a word from the English dictionary.
>
> Hows an over 50 supposed to remember a password like that!!
>
> On 2012-06-21 17:47, Marc Grober wrote:
> > https://www.cacert.org/index.php?id=1
> >
> > On 6/20/12 6:14 PM, James Knott wrote:
> > > Marc Grober wrote:
> > > > get a cert from CACert.org
> > > Hmmm...
> > >
> > > I just tried going to that site and got this:
> > >
> > > "This Connection is Untrusted
> > >
> > > You have asked Firefox to connectsecurely to www.cacert.org, but we can't
> > > confirm that your connection is secure.
> > >
> > > Normally, when you try to connect securely, sites will present trusted
> > > identification
> > > to prove that you are going to the right place. However, this site's
> > > identity can't be
> > > verified.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > What Should I Do?
> > >
> > > If you usually connect to this site without problems, this error could
> > > mean that
> > > someone is trying to impersonate the site, and you shouldn't continue."
> > >
> > > Not good for a certificate site.

-- 
Felmon Davis

Clothes make the man.  Naked people have little or no influence on society.
         -- Mark Twain

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