From the article: 5 Steps to a Good Password
A good password balances complexity with ease of remembering: it needs to be cryptic enough that hacker software does not easily guess it, but it needs to be meaningful enough that it is easy to remember. There is definitely more than one way to achieve this balancing act. How do you think up a strong password in your life? Tell us your tips
Old vets
- Older Veterans have a Service number that was replaced with a SSAN. All of them remember the old obscure Service number, add your phone number in CAPS.
- —Guest Jerry Reuter
Phrase with numbers
- I use a common phrase that has numbers in it, take the first two letters of each word and write the numbers. For example "is the glass half full or half empty?" = isthgl1/2fuor1/2em? Hack that!
- —Guest Frecoz
Words and time
- I am a model railroader so I take a railroad term break it up and use the time I make the password and the date . A password may look like this br9ak3e5ma5n The word being brakeman, the time would be 9:35 and the date would be 5
- —Guest Chanda
Inconsistency is the key...
- I like to take real words, and change letters for punctuation and/or numbers - BUT NOT ALWAYS! This means that I DON't use '&' EVERY time I encounter an 'a' - and if there are 2 or more a's, then there's no reason both (or all) have to become &'s (or that they don't). And if I can change several letters, I won't necessarily do so. So, if I took 'parametric', it could become - p&ramet
- —Leafmann
password tips
- I search the Web for Chemical Formulas selecting for example those beginning with B. There's a lot of Ba (barium) compounds. I.e.: Ba(AlO2)2. My reminder phrase is "Bariun Aluminate" and the secret one is "Synonym", so if I forget the formula I have Wikipedia at hand. Then select a letter (i.e. the initial of your name) or a number, and replace in the formula the last letter, or the first one... or other trick. Once a criterion is established you must use the same trick for always even changing your formula... I wanna say, your Password.
- —Guest Juan
A different password for each login
- It's not that difficult to create and remember different passwords for all your logins. A rule-based system is the way to go :) Check it out: http://www.torkiljohnsen.com/2010/08/18/how-to-create%E2%80%94and-remember%E2%80%94a-different-password-for-every-single-login/
- —Guest Torkil Johnsen
Initials of your dream sentence
- This is a very powerful way to create a password that is easy to remember to you and a very difficult to guess by any other one on the planet except you .. suppose you are love and play tennis for example and want to be the world championship one day you can say along pharase expressing your big dream like : I Am The Best Tennis Player In The World And I Will Become The World Champion By The Year 2025 .. you can then take the initials of your favourite phrase or Quote in one sentence and it will be : iatbtpitwaiwbtwcbty2025 You can punctuate some letters in upper case as you prefer. it helps also remind you always of your big dream every time you type it to log in :).. believe me it really is an unforgettable password and also a never guessable one .
- —Guest Mohammad
Song Lyrics
- I love music and remember song lyrics easily. So I make my passwords the first letter of each word. Examples: Beatles - Yellow Submarine We all live in a yellow submarine w a l i a y s W @ l i a Y 5 Plain White T's - Hey there Delilah hey there delilah what's it like in new york city h t d w i l i nyc H t D w i l > NYC? Rihanna - Umbrella You can stand under my umbrella under my umbrella y c s u m u u m u U c 5 u M ^ u M ^
- —jazz2metalmusic
Mix and Match
- Names, Symbols, Numbers, Case, Length. Use them all in one password, JUST MAKE SURE YOU WRITE IT DOWN. If the password program doesn't allow for case-sensitivity, you are limited to the other four. FIVE DIMENSIONAL, like a tesseract, see?
- —Guest disciplineandhonor
Easy tip
- My way is simple but efficient: I take an easy-to-remember word, but for each letter I use the one next to it on the keyboard. So in this way a simple word, like "orange" would look like "ptsmhr", since p is next to o, t is next to r, and so on. This method gives absolutely unguessable passwords. For the best result use longer base words than in this example.
- —Guest HunMetalFan
passwords
- I use yje names of our dogs. People know that we have germans shepherds and pyrennes but they don't necessarily remember what name with what dog.
- —Guest Vivian
First Initials of Family
- I take a group, for example my aunts + the year the youngest of them was born + initial of their maiden name. Sounds complicated but it really isn't.(I have a very large family)
- —aliciasaenz
Passwords
- I use one word f.i. uncle next password= kuncle, juncle, huncle, buncle, duncle etc, If the password has been taken you can add digits like 123, 554, 999 etc,
- —Guest hodaks
fathers name
- my fathers name is felix a mclaughlin he is deceased at the age 85
- —Guest rebecca s. mclaughlin
One more tip
- One especially important tip is to NOT use words in the dictionary or names.
- —Guest aNOnamouS 1
1-15 of 22Next
