Internet Connection & Passwords

When you first arrange an internet connection with an ISP (Internet Service Provider) you will be asked for a password. on many occasions while you surf the www (World Wide Web), you wwill also be asked for a password

Idle thoughts on passwords

Reading a recent article on 'popular' passwords (e.g. '123', 'abc', 'password' and the like), I thought I might pass on my own method for creating passwords.

Passwords should be a mixture of alphabetic characters and digits; be of a reasonable length; not be guessable and yet be memorable for the person who generates them. My method now is based on the lyrics of songs that are well known, at least, to me.

Let us suppose that your chosen song is 'The Twelve Days of Christmas'. The first verse is:

				On the first day of Christmas,
				My true love sent to me
				A partridge in a pear tree.

Taking the initial letters of each word in this verse, yields the password 'otfdocmtlstmapiapt'. Should you require a password with digits in it, it is relatively easy to substitute '1, 2, 3, 4 & 5' for 'a, e, i, o & u' respectively.

Thus this password becomes: '4tfd4cmtlstm1p31pt'

Now I think that if you covered this page up, you could reproduce this password with no more aid than paper and a pencil. Furthermore you have at your fingertips another eleven secure passwords.

Now go and think of your own passwords!