[Info-vax] VMS humor

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <00B5C20D.BEBEFE62 at SendSpamHere.ORG>, VAXman- 
@SendSpamHere.ORG writes: 

> >knE~yAZ7dv=K]+Ui
> >3t;yh58-6T1[Oa7;
> >40Ie652I[6xlW3Yl
> >ud58{>!1&R17h7uo
> >dRcp7Se{'8^1<mK0
> >
> >Choose a password from this list, or press RETURN to get a new list
> 
> And harder to remember!  That'll insure that the user records their
> password somewhere besides in their memory.

Longer is stronger.

There is a great xqcd cartoon on that topic.

The more rules there are---mixed case, letters and number, special 
characters---the fewer combinations one has to try.  Longer passweords 
without the gobbledygook are easier for people to remember but harder 
for computers to guess.  People just don't get it.