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Regulatory requirements: minimum 15 characters, changed every 60 days; currently three domains, soon to be four. If you don't have a system, you're screwed.
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Oeh.. so you don't know yet if there's a MAXIMUM for the password length?
Tim Carmichael wrote: changed every 60 days
Does that mean that there's a new post-it on the computer screens every two months?
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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No post it notes... just develop a system.
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I use a salted hash of the domain names. The program then adds 2 special characters to the first 16 hashed hex numbers and copies the 18 characters into the clipboard. So when I input "amazon" I get a fairly powerful password that is never stored nor known, but easily available to be pasted when needed.
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I put this as a reply to other comment, but I will put it here also.
This is a good point of view about passwords:
"Through 20 years of effort, we've successfully trained everyone to use passwords that are hard for humans to remember, but easy for computers to guess."
http://xkcd.com/936/[^]
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Now I know your password:
"Correct Horse Battery Staple"?
Within you lies the power for good - Use it!
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nah!! I use whole quotes, poems, or chemistry forms...
The point was that sometimes the password enforcement rules actually makes loopholes, as the people don't always remember those passwords. As the example, just 4 random words are more secure that P@ssw0r123$
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From Source Forge; been using it for years.
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It is actually here in a Code Project Article[^].
I use this one also.
Within you lies the power for good - Use it!
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I also do. As most of my family.
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I use the portable version on a thumb drive. Works just about anywhere there is a Windows computer.
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Used it too until I forgot my KeePass password and gave up on it.
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I always memorized several shorter passwords to create large passwords.
I think I'll try the encrypted file technique, and use the scattered paper technique to store the key.
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Missing that alternative, and multiple choice.
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Considering the top choice now (Memorize), how 'bout:
How complex/diverse are your passwords:
-- Same single-case word everywhere.
-- different single-case word everywhere.
-- same upper/lower/number password everywhere
-- differnt upper/lower/number password everywhere
Truth,
James
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Depends on the requirements of the systems involved.
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It's a secret.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I could tell you, but then I'd have to kill you... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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If you have it in your mind, its is stored in a file and it is encrypted, and you have no idea where it is
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Kenneth Haugland wrote: If you have it in your mind, its is stored in a file and it is encrypted
My mind is only encrypted when under the influence of copious amounts of alcohol.
Kenneth Haugland wrote: and you have no idea where it is
By that stage I have no idea where I am...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I would think that it would remain encrypted as long as you had a paucity amounts of alcohol, while it got decrypted with a copious amount
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