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So you're advising against what appears to be a more practical and secure methodology on the basis that it's worse when you share your password? If you share your password, your exact problem is that you're sharing your password -- it's not how easy or hard the password is to remember. In fact, why does this even have any significance when the person you're sharing it with can just write it down?

Oh and if within a year's time you do not change your password, that could very well be another problem. I think you'd be better off just using easy to remember pass phrases and changing them every once in a while. Shouldn't be a problem because they are, after all, easy to remember.



> So you're advising against what appears to be a more practical and secure methodology on the basis that it's worse when you share your password?

Iff you share your password then yes, you should use a scheme more suitable for that. And yes we shouldn't be sharing passwords, and if we do we should be changing them, but in the real world where most people don't do that I don't think we should encourage passwords which their friends will remember easily - because that is a very common attack vector.




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