Mail Archives: opendos/1997/04/12/20:26:45
Date: | Sat, 12 Apr 1997 19:22:01 -0500 (CDT)
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From: | "Colin W. Glenn" <cwg01 AT gnofn DOT org>
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To: | opendos AT delorie DOT com
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Subject: | Re: [opendos] Wishlist v2.0
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In-Reply-To: | <Pine.LNX.3.95.970412001207.309K-100000@capslock.com>
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Message-ID: | <Pine.GSO.3.95.970412191641.6919B-100000@sparkie.gnofn.org>
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MIME-Version: | 1.0
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On Sat, 12 Apr 1997, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Apr 1997, Colin W. Glenn wrote:
> > Hmmm, I can see that now, keep your password offline in a nocr/lf file,
> > then do an ascii upload whenever you log on.
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> The purpose of a long password would theoretically be for better
> security. Putting a password into an autologon script for
Generally, I pick passwords which are not only obscure, but ones I
remember easy. As strange as it sounds, it works. My reference source
for generating passwords will make 165,000 unique passwords if I keep them
to 5-8 characters, it multiplies expotentially with added characters.
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