Strong Passwords – How to Make/Generate Them
Are you finding yourself from having to create a new password on an almost daily basis?
This page won’t help to avoiding it unless you want to quite the internet (opening new accounts for emails, social networks, bank accounts, computer operating systems, mobile phones, cable TV decoders, automated teller machines (ATMs)). Nowadays it is very difficult to avoid creating different accounts as its part of our modern day convenience supposedly making our lives easier.
Passwords are keys to avoid everyone else from getting to an account that is personal to you. Here are some steps you can follow to get yourself a strong password:
- Avoid using your name, nickname, initials, and words found in a dictionary. Surprisingly, passwords made from a word or combinations of words from a dictionary are very easy to crack. These types of passwords can be broken by using the dictionary hack method. The reality is that all types of passwords can be broken; it just a question time –passwords that once could take millions of human hours (theoretical speaking) to break can be broken in minutes in computing time. Here some common passwords and obviously are to be avoided: (your username), (your username)+123, 123456, password, 1234, 12345, passwd, 123 test, 1
- Create a scheme of letter substitution, for example you could substitute ‘8’ for the letter ‘a’. Do not copy a scheme make your own one.
- Think of a sentence that you can remember, such as one from a nursery rhyme or one from your favourite novel. Take the first letter from each word of that sentence as the basis of your password.
- Use your letter substitution method to, you guess it, make the substitutions
- Your password is reasonable, but you can make some more changes, such as using changing some of the letters to upper case.
- Add some exotic characters , these are what I call symbols such as (“,£, $,&, @,_,+,=, etc)
Now you have a fairly strong password.
