[Fwd: Re: Co-op Bank and Verified by Visa]

[Adrian Midgley]

Nicholas Bohm wrote:

> I can memorise complex passwords that have to be entered in full, or use
> an encrypted vault; but passwords where I may have to enter the 1st, 4th
> and 7th characters have to be simple enough to count along while
> remembering them, or have to be written down where I can number the
> characters, all of which makes for poor conventional security.

That is the system adopted for the NHS secure email system.

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