[Mimedefang] Passphrase - was:Re: FYI: LinkedIn MIMEDefang group is gone

Kevin A. McGrail KMcGrail at PCCC.com
Tue Jun 19 15:31:26 EDT 2012


On 6/19/2012 1:00 PM, WBrown at e1b.org wrote:
> Kevin wrote on 06/06/2012 03:06:16 PM:
>
>> After that, my general guideline is to use passphrases not passwords.
>> Things like My_Birthday_is_on_January_1st! are better than randomly
>> generated passwords.
> How do we get system designers to start prompting for passphrases instead
> of passwords.  That alone should clue the user into using something longer
> than "link" as their password.
>
> I use correcthorsebatterystaple everywhere.  (NOT!)
Good question.  Perhaps getting SAGE on board with the policy so System 
Administrators can use it as a leg to stand on in defending this would 
be a good start?



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