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Ok, just thought of a simple idea.

You could say that the first letter, is always an actual letter.

When the letter appears for the second time, then replace it with it's corresponding number.

You could use all sorts of forumalas, depending on how good your memory is for formulas and rules.

Persoanlly I'm good at this.But you don't have to egt too heavy with it.Aplhanumeric is still better than just numbers or letters.

Perhaps a smple approach would be:

-Actual letter first occurrence of the letter.
-Next occurrence of the letter replace with corresponding number.
-Next occurrence of the letter, use the actual letter........

and so on.

However, a problem that could occur here is remembering where youa re in the sequence.

Say that you have quite a few vowels in a long password of 30 letters.

Let's say you have seven 'A's.

Now it's easy following the letter, number, letter, number rule if all the A's are after each other.
But more likely the 'A's will be spread out.

In between writing out theother letters, you will ahve to remember how the next 'A' will be defined.

Will it be a number or a letter.

So, this is the next thing to figure out a way of remembering more easily.

Hmmmm, let me think...........

[This message has been edited by flex22 (edited April 24, 2004).]

I just thought to myself that people may say that you could easily tell how you defined the last letter by looking back at what you wrote.

However, password don't allow you to see what your writing on the screen.
They should show black dots most of the time.

Just thought I'd point that out.

LOL, it's me again

Just thought of a fairly simple formula.

We don't need to worry about the randomization of letters, as they are randomized already.

What I mean is, we don't have any words called AAAA, or BBBB.

Right now, there's 26 letters in the alphabet.

Divide this by 2.

So up until the 13th (M) letter of the alphabet, always use the actual letter.

from the 14th (N) letter of the alphabet, use the corresponding number.

Further rules can be applied (various divisons, those good at maths can apply), but I think I'll leave it their and wait for a reponse, to let you people read what I've written so far.

I hope you follow what I've been saying.Please do ask bout anything that's not clear.
I'm not always the best at explaining mself

Thanks again

[This message has been edited by flex22 (edited April 24, 2004).]

[This message has been edited by flex22 (edited April 24, 2004).]

all very good suggestions.

Another simple solution would be to have a system that is always the same:

@word%!%2315184@

as in: symbol - word - symbols - number corresponding to the word used in part one - symbol.

Or some such thing. By using the same word/numeric representation of word, you are quite likely to remember the password.

I had a period of using phrases that are always remembered together with an ampersand:
frankie&johnny, macaroni&cheese, bonny&clyde, hugz&kisz adding symbols and things.

I also had a mathematical period where I used squares and cubes together with words.

So a password might well look like this:
&&7sq49!magnesIUm&&
and then I could just change the number to square use a different element for the second part - systematic, yet difficult to hack.