SSH hacked?

[Ioannis Vranos]

Kent Borg wrote:
> Ioannis Vranos wrote:
>>  From something I had red in the past, I think a pretty easy way to 
>> produce and remember relatively strong passwords, is by using the first 
>> letter of every word of a phrase or a poem or something else you 
>> remember, or the first two letters of every such word, or the first 
>> three letters of every such word.
>>
>>   
> 
> Be careful! You might remember the same phrase as do others. Once upon a
> time many computer people thought "Gandalf" was
> *terribly* obscure, but it is one of the first passwords cracking
> sortware will try.
> 
> At first glance "idetsinetsi" might seem plenty obscure, but Monty
> Python fans told to generate a password by this technique are damn
> likely to pick it. And religious folks might think "etiwttvotsod" is
> *terribly* obscure, but it is not.


I am talking about passwords of the following style:

1. We pick a text:

   "Ubuntu will always be free of charge".


2. We use the first letter of each word to generate the password:

Password: "Uwabfoc"

We could use the first two letters of each word:

Password: "Ubwialbefrofch".