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Originally Posted by TomJ View Post
Would this be a good time for me to pipe up with my favorite methods for coming up with memeorable strong passworeds? Yes? Alrighty then...

Take a phrase you know well and are unlikely to forget; a quotation or lyric is often good. Let us take something from George Orwell:

Four legs good, two legs bad!

Now all we have to do is take the first letters:

Flgtlb

Flor extra strength, we can keep the punctuation ad us numeral where appropriate:

4lg,2lb!

You can use other rebus type techniques to get an approriately strong yet memorable password. One I used for a while was the opening of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner:

it is an anicient mariner,
And he stoppeth one of three.

which became:

IiaAM,&hs1/3.

Lets see a dictionary attack break that one... not that I can use it any more having shared it, but you see the point.
Yes, that's more or less exactly what I was trying to describe in the post above yours.
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