[Cryptography] Of writing down passwords

[Stephan Neuhaus]

On 2014-09-22 05:41, Peter Gutmann wrote:
> Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> writes:
>> I quote from The Book of Words, chapter "Protecting Access to the Technicolor
>> Gateway", verse "Default password":
>>
>>   Choose a password that your[sic] can easily remember or write it down.
>>
>> Or write it down...  Umm, OK, and this is Australia's national carrier?
>
> Finally a large organisation providing sensible password advice.

If I had written this document, I'd probably have removed the "easy to 
remember" part while emphasising the "write it down" part, but that's a 
detail.

> (Since you seem to disagree with it, what threat exactly is introduced by the
> above?  Walk us through a scenario...).

+1

Fun,

Stephan