On Jun 28, 2007, at 4:06 PM, Norman Palardy wrote:
>> Does anyone know whether any routines exist in RB for doing this
>
> Memorable or meaningful passwords can be a negative as they can be
> derived based on public information, etc.
> But ones that are random strings of letters, numbers and punctuation
> will have their own issues (like people writing them down on stickies)
If you want *memorable* passwords, that is passwords that people can
actually remember without having to write them down, the best system
I've heard of is to use a password phrase. Like "The fat fox ran 3
miles and died." Then you take the first letter of each word to make
the password: Tffr3mad
This creates pretty secure passwords, but the person remembers the
phrase, not the gibberish letters.
It wouldn't be hard to write a program in RB that generated random
phrases from a database of words or pulled quotations from a
quotation database or something similar.
Marc Zeedar
Publisher, REALbasic Developer magazine
www.rbdeveloper.com
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