<div dir="ltr">The Turing version is more robust, but I've been doing something similar for years. I think I picked it up from a Lifehacker book initially.<div><br></div><div>The password prefix is a word or phrase that means something to you. Transform it by selecting keys nearby. Say you play a lot of poker and you choose "ace", and select keys to the right. The password prefix here is now "svr"</div><div><br></div><div>Insert a number of your choosing. Our poker player friend likes 21, so the password is now "svr21"</div><div><br></div><div>Then the suffix of the password relates directly to the site or software in question. For example, the last three letters of the domain, but choosing keys to the upper left. If he is logging onto Amazon to buy a book on counting cards is password becomes "svr21a9h"</div><div><br></div><div>There. Unique password for each need. The first portion of the password stays static, so I change it every so often. I also use LastPass to track all of this, but in most cases I can "guess" my own password because I know my algorithms.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature">-Dan<br><br>"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." - Aristotle</div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 12:41 PM, Jeff Frontz <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jeff.frontz@gmail.com" target="_blank">jeff.frontz@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><span class=""><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 12:32 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jep200404@columbus.rr.com" target="_blank">jep200404@columbus.rr.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">What do you think of the following technique?</blockquote></div><br></span>Steve Gibson apparently approves -- at least of the concept (from the comments in Turing-award-winner article): <a href="https://www.grc.com/offthegrid.htm" target="_blank">https://www.grc.com/offthegrid.htm</a></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div></div>
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