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Perfect Password: Selection, Protection, Authentication Review by Jay P. Vansanten
Hidden in front of your eyes...
This is unique book -- hence the 5 stars.
It's a quick read, you'll likely be able to finish it in a short evening.
The book is what it says -- it deals only with passwords from a mathematical basis. There are no implementation details on different OSes.
But, it doesn't promulgate the typical complex, elusive passwords that system administrators typically love. It suggests first making passwords memorable, then long, then complex -- through different character sets. There are a surprising variety of strategies which emerge. This approach can assist system administrators in developing relatively secure but easy to remember terms.
There's an informal presentation of statistics to support the presentation.
An invaluable book for system admins in an insecure world.