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Perfect Password: Selection, Protection, Authentication Review by G. Parks
"Perfect Passwords" Is Perfect! :)
Review For: "Perfect Passwords: Selection, Protection, Authentication", ISBN 1597490415, by Mark Burnett, 2005
There are LOTS and LOTS of tips and tricks in this book for forming long, memorable, and hard-to-crack passwords. But if all you're interested in is the Meat and Potatoes, I can shortcut the matter and give it to you here: "The Perfect Password" has eight (8) elements to it:
1. It has UPPERCASE letters (ABC...).
2. It has lowercase letters (def...).
3. It has numbers (123...).
4. It has spaces (" ").
5. It has punctuation (.,:;-!? and the like, usually used in sentences).
6. It has symbols (@&+=>$#*^~ and the like, usually NOT used in sentences).
7. It has respelling (i.e., no words that can be found in a
dictionary -- for example, using "kwean", and not "queen").
8. It has more than 15 characters, and the more the better.
That's it, Jack! If you can easily come up, on the spur of the moment, with a passphrase or password which meets ALL of these criteria, AND which is easy to remember... then YOU DON'T NEED TO BUY THIS BOOK, you've already got it made!
Otherwise, the aforementioned Tips & Tricks will come in very very handy. And not only that, it's (surprisingly!) entertaining, too -- like the annectdote about the author's 5-year-old son, whose password was:
"ooooooooooooooo"
(Shux, his son liked the letter "o", and he could count to the minimum password length of 15, so that's what the lil' kidlet tyke used, LOL!)
Buy this book. Please trust me, you won't be sorry. :)