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Friday, July 15, 2005

 

Octoverboids

I read a fair portion of Kevin Mitnick's 2002 book The Art of Deception, in which, among other things, he advises the use of 8-letter passwords generated randomly using this template: CVCVCVCV (in which C=Consonant and V=Vowel). Passwords generated this way, because possibly pronounceable, are easier to remember than 100% random 8-character strings.

Well, this was right up my alley, so now, if you request the Password Generator, you'll get a nice new neologism, an ... octoverboid. Eight examples follow:

beludume
bikodufa
conopepi
herobave
jicogiti
nolecaga
paxavary
wokukune