Re: Strong, memorable passwords |
Subject: Re: Strong, memorable passwords by Vaughan on 2011/6/7 2:51:37 people choose easy passwords for mainly 2 reasons; 1. they don't understand the impact of security & how easily passwords can be cracked or guessed or the tricks crackers use to gain access. 2. because an easy password is easy to remember: password is easier to remember than 1Rthg&6FW but why should a password be hard to remember? because people over-think them, and because of reason 1 above. so how would you go about making a password that seems random, but is easy to remember & contains all the neccessary requirements? think about it logically. 1 way of producing a memorable random password that contains no words and makes no sense whatsoever but is easy to remember to yourself. take your address for example 199 Bond Street, Staveley Chesterfield Derbyshire United Kingdom everyone knows their own address & phone number. so a password derived from your address that is easy to remember. 199BdStSyCdDeUdKm strengthen that by turning it into an email like address 199BdStSyCdDeUdKm@123456.com where 123456 is your phone number. and there you have a very long password, easy for you to remember. i took the 1st & last letter of each word of the address. it could be your mothers address, friends work address. the point is, you derived your password from something that you can easily remember & turned it into a phrase that can be easily recounted by yourself. that is 1 way of producing a good strong password. it doesn't need to be random, but it does need to be remembered. [edit] the above address is fictional btw. it does not exist, i'm not that dumb. (for those spammers that think i might be) just thought i'd mention that!!!! |