On Tue, Feb 03, 2015 at 07:52:53AM -0800, Keith Keller wrote: > 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". > Ah, that makes sense then, thanks. -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6