On 2015-02-03, Scott Robbins <scottro at nyc.rr.com> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 03, 2015 at 01:53:45PM +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote: >> >> The first is "Don't use a palindrome" >> which makes me wonder if the author knows the meaning of this word. >> I suspect he/she thinks it means "a known word backwards". > > That's what I would call it (or phrase or sequence of numbers.) When I > read your post, I thought I was missing something, but some cursory > googling indicates that I'm right. What am I missing here? I don't think anybody is missing anything. "Palindrome" in this context may not be limited to real words; the author may be suggesting that you not pick your password by picking a real word and tacking on its reverse to make a palindrome, e.g., "password1drowssap". --keith -- kkeller at wombat.san-francisco.ca.us