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Creating secure passwords for confidential computer files is difficult. Users prefer passwords that are easy to remember. Unfortunately, these passwords are the easiest to guess for an outsider. Random configurations of letters and numbers are the hardest for an outsider to guess, but also the easiest for a legitimate user to forget. Furthermore, passwords that are very difficult to remember are generally written down, and hence pose the greatest security threat of all.
Passwords that are easy to remember pose less of a security threat than passwords that are very difficult to remember. We know this because passwords that are very difficult to remember pose the greatest security threat.
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