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The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:18:01
Evan Brewer (dmessiah@silcon.com)
Mon, 4 Jan 1999 11:19:36 -0800
On Mon, Jan 04, 1999 at 11:28:33AM -0500, Adam Shostack wrote:
> There is a substantial body of research over the last 20 (or
> more) years, showing consistently that most people will, given the
> chance, select their password from a very small, and easily searched
> space. There is no reason to believe that changing the word
> 'password' to 'passphrase' will suddenly shift people's behavior.
I find this last statement to be incorrect. Most intelligent people
would believe a password to be a single word, whereas a pass`phrase`
would be more of a sentance, or multiple words strung together. I
could be dead wrong, but that is how I see it.
The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:18:01