"Most people use passwords. Some people use passphrases. Bruce Schneier uses an epic passpoem, detailing the life and works of seven mythical Norse heroes."
I know you're making a joke but a passpoem or a passstory for lack of a better word is usable and something I do.
I take a passage of reasonable length from a book that I've memorized, could be song lyrics or anything though. Then to create a password I take the first several words to make a password roughly the length I want, do a standard transformation on it that results in a string with numbers and special characters and use that as a password.
When I need to change my password, I just take the next phrase from the passage and apply the same transformation. This has the distinct ability of letting me go back in time and remember what password I would have used at a certain time which has come in handy for remembering the root password on an old server.
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"Most people use passwords. Some people use passphrases. Bruce Schneier uses an epic passpoem, detailing the life and works of seven mythical Norse heroes."
http://www.schneierfacts.com/fact/27
I know you're making a joke but a passpoem or a passstory for lack of a better word is usable and something I do.
I take a passage of reasonable length from a book that I've memorized, could be song lyrics or anything though. Then to create a password I take the first several words to make a password roughly the length I want, do a standard transformation on it that results in a string with numbers and special characters and use that as a password.
When I need to change my password, I just take the next phrase from the passage and apply the same transformation. This has the distinct ability of letting me go back in time and remember what password I would have used at a certain time which has come in handy for remembering the root password on an old server.