<div dir="ltr">That was one place you SHOULD correct people because password misunderstanding is a danger to the ENTIRE community.<div><br></div><div>That point really SHOULD come up at least once a year just to make sure everyone remembers.</div><div>Conspire SHOULD be an educational resource.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 9:59 PM Rick Moen <<a href="mailto:rick@linuxmafia.com">rick@linuxmafia.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Quoting Texx (<a href="mailto:texxgadget@gmail.com" target="_blank">texxgadget@gmail.com</a>):<br>
<br>
> Re Ricks not explaining how he does his passwords:<br>
> Indeed you should NOT tell us how you do it.<br>
<br>
You betcha. I could suggest various way to do passwords, but IMO <br>
people ought to work out what best suits them and their needs.<br>
<br>
<br>
> On the third day, I forgot my password to the password manager.<br>
<br>
Yeah, ouch.<br>
<br>
Some things are so vital to not lose that they are best entrusted to<br>
someone (a well-selected someone) in a sealed envelope that is to be<br>
opened only in particular specified situations.<br>
<br>
> Regarding Ricks & Pauls posts, I see a conflict.<br>
> Is it number of pitibilities per digit to the power of the number of digits?<br>
> Or is it number of digits to the power of the number of possibilities per<br>
> digit?<br>
<br>
I wasn't going to be a jerk and correct Paul's transposition of those<br>
things.<br>
<br>
Consider a password consisting of two lower-case letters from the<br>
regular 26-letter Latin alphabet used for English. (I'm being pedantic<br>
on that point in part because I'm Norwegian-American. The Norwegian and<br>
Danish alphabets share a 29-letter alphabet that's like English's except<br>
for three additional letters at the end.)<br>
<br>
The first letter can be one of 26 choices. The second letter can be one<br>
of 26 choices. The total number of password permutations is thus 26 ^ 2.<br>
<br>
If there were _eight_ character slots in the password, and each could be<br>
one of the 26 letters of the English-flavour Latin alphabet, then the<br>
number of possible password permutations would be 26 ^ 8.<br>
<br>
Und so weiter....<br>
<br>
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</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><br>R "Texx" Woodworth<br>Sysadmin, E-Postmaster, IT Molewhacker<br>"Face down, 9 edge 1st, roadkill on the information superdata highway..."<br></div>