Re: forgot password, how to recover?

Karel Van der Gucht wrote:

 > My solution is to keep database passwords in another database, and 
the > password of this database is put on paper (don't forget were you put
 > it!).

I don't like writing anything down that could be useful to the wrong people.

If you have a book with lots of alpha/numeric text, such as some math
text books, you can get a strong passwords from it.

For instance, you might have an algebra book with formulas like the
following:

   2a -- b = R

This could serve as a strong master password, as it has a length of 10,
contains both upper and lower case letters, numbers, symbols, spaces and
should not be too difficult to memorize.  But just in case you ever have
a memory lapse, you should have an alternative way of retrieving it.

As long as the book is kept at hand and you can remember it's title, the
only reminders you need are the line and page numbers of the formula.
So your reminder could be on an entry named "reminder" in your address
book and looking like "23,118".


jim
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