Final Word on the Password Problem

[Fairlight]

> | On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 03:49:38PM -0400, Nancy Palmquist wrote:
> | | 
> | | I have posted this comment many times over the years, but you should
> | | assign a site password right now.  ALWAYS do it.
> | | 
> | | Write it down, put it in the safe and let it attach to your programs as
> | | you work.  It will never bother you again.

No, no, no, and furthermore, no.  One does -not- write down passwords; one
commits them to memory.  Doing otherwise is a violation of a basic tenet of
security.  There -is- no safe place.  A "safe place" for written passwords
is as much a misnomer as the ficticious, fabled, and oft-mis-cited "trusted
system".  As with the phoenix and unicorn, such creatures simply do not
exist.

I refrain from comment on passwords as applies to processing tables or
fP in general.  My only quibble is with the very concept of writing down
passwords or passphrases.

mark->
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