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Designing a Personal, User-friendly Password
Passwords vary in the degree of public awareness, security protection and
frequency of change. The most public, and therefore least secure, password might
be one that is given to members of a group, a committee or some other
organization. for instance, "publiclibrary", "internet" or "AAAfinancecommittee"
are all examples of easily remembered passwords.
Less easily attacked passwords might be built from such a basic form. for
instance, "smith12nov34street" or "AAAchairpersonSUE". These are slightly more
secure, but being relatively easily predictable should not relied upon to
actually block unauthorized access. Effective access control requires passwords
which are more difficult to guess or to find automatically, and these are the
subject of much of the rest of this article.
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