(I posted these links on the other blog already, but thought they might be of interest to the viewing audience here.)
- The Password Is Fayleyure
Today’s password authentication schemes are little more than security placebos. They perversely inspire abuse, misuse, and criminal mischief by deliberately making users the weakest link in the security chain. Greater teleprocessing power has made stealing or cracking password sequences ever faster, better, and cheaper.
(via Tomalak's Realm) - Secure passwords with nursery rhymes
Take a phrase or saying, or perhaps a line from a song that you can remember readily, then type the first letter of each word as you say it to yourself... You can make it even more secure by throwing in a few number / character substitutions - zeros for the letter 'o', for example.
- Password Production
The general idea is to pick a two-word combination you can easily remember (and) interleave the words... In cases where your two words have different lengths, you can always tack on numbers.
(via Cutting Through)