pjgeer's Journal: "Passwords need special chars to beat dictionary attack"

People use a dictionary word to help them remember the sequence of characters they need to type. Why not just pick a sequence of characters that is easy to remember, given the position of the characters on a keyboard? Try typing "mnbvcxz" and you'll see what I mean. For paranoid password programs you can include numbers and special characters without much difficulty. For learning purposes, you can write the first letter on a sticky and then draw the shape with a line and arrow thus: <---m