Passphrases and Your User ID!! (Part 2)
Passphrases and Your User ID!! In our last article we spoke of the “new thinking” of passphrases instead of passwords and we explained how difficult, if not impossible, it is for even a computer to guess your passphrase when it’s larger than 24 or 28 characters. This short article wants to discuss “login credentials”. Login credentials is defined as both your user-id and passphrase. (There may be a 3 rd credential, but that’s for another article.) You’ve heard the expression, it takes two to tango. In other words, a passphrase and user-id must be correct and must be for one another before you are allowed access. So, perhaps your user-id is more important than many had thought previously! For those sites that allow you to pick your user-id and passphrase, think of each as a security key. Now, what should one use as a user-id? That’s really up to you, but you can make it easy to remember by using a combination of your nickname, stree...