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Steve Gibson (of Gibson Research) covered this in his Security Now! podcast, episode 303 at http://twit.tv/sn303 and called them "Password Haystacks".

Has some stats on why this is more difficult to be determined by an outside entity.  Has an online tool that gives you the stats at https://www.grc.com/haystack.htm

Pretty interesting



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On Aug 10, 2011, at 4:31 PM, Steve Bogdanski wrote:

It is actually a well known comic strip, but the basic argument is very valid.  I read an article along similar lines a month or two ago about the same idea.  That using two words separated for your password is much better and harder to guess than using the currently recommended methods.
 

 
 
-Steve Bogdanski
 
 
>>> On 8/10/2011 at  4:27 PM, Chris Wolf <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Message looks untrustworthy, a lot like spam or malware. How about some
explanatory text so we know this is from a real person and is relevant to
MSUNAG? Thanks.

-----Original Message-----
From: Kim Geiger [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2011 4:11 PM
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Subject: [MSUNAG] xkcd

Had to share this one with you all.

http://xkcd.com/936/



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