How To Create Strong Passwords You’ll Remember

When creating strong passwords, using special characters, mixed case, and numbers in your passwords makes the task more difficult, but the best defense against your typical password cracks is length. This is the key to creating a really strong password that is easy to remember. Forget the password, use a pass phrase. Favorite quote, favorite lyrics, anything.

“This is my website password!!!”

Swap out the word “website” with whatever you’re protecting, such as “e-mail” or “banking” and you have a pretty good system for remembering all your passwords, while keeping them strong.

The only drawback is that there are still some websites that still inexplicably put length restrictions on their passwords. This may imply that they’re not scrambling (hashing) your password before saving to their database. Consider this a security red flag.

My favorite trick is to use lines from songs, and then work numbers and symbols into that.

i.e.
“I want to be a part of it, New York, New York”

could be iw2bapotnyny

I like using a mixture of names interlaced with a number and symbol at the end. For example, if you name was Bill Jones and your street number was 123, you would use:
BjIoLnLes123! This method works great for me and seems darn-near unhackable in the period of one life time by even the best software because it appears random and is not made of words in a dictionary. It looks hard to remember, but once you start using it, your fingers will remember the sequence, even if you don’t.

I came up with a list of 10 chronological life events which I would not forget and I could encode into a 4-character string (for example, high school graduation could be gh07 for “Graduated High school in 07″).

Then an 8-digit code can be memorized as a 2-digit number, and I can put the question which leads to this 2-digit number in plain text/site. Even if you are geeky enough to realize that the question “What is 6 times 9?” gives 42 for an answer, you still need to know what 4-character strings are associated with life event 4 and 2.

Then to make it more interesting, I hold down the shift-key for one or the digits, so the gh07 becomes GH)&.

I just find any random generator (search Google) and then have it generate a random password, such as d3F8EnHj. Then I figure out some sentence that can be used to give it meaning.

Such a sentence might be “did 3 Frenchmen 8 Englishmen need Homers jokes”. The trick is to replace any capital letters with proper nouns – it will then seem easier to remember which should be capitalized.

You could try using http://www.passpub.com to generate strong unique passwords in a range of memorable formats i.e. map ref – A12B34, post code – DF47HJ and keycombos which use pairs of keys placed next to each other on the keyboard – 34YUGBsx.

One of the first “rules” of strong passwords is not to use personal information – information that can be guessed. Your child’s birth dates and initials are personal – if someone knows you and wants to get into your files, they could use this information, drop it into a brute force password cracker, and whala.

Think “pass-phrase” not “pass-word”.
I collect useful, short phrases, from writers I like, or phrases that seem helpful which I find much easier to remember. I purposefully try to find phrases which make me feel better or aim at my goals as well.
Then, use the first letters of each word, and all of the sentence punctuation, to make a memorable “password” which is also impossible to guess.
Examples — I love logging into my computer remembering this one from Buddhist teacher Thich Nhat Hanh:
“Breathing in, I know that I am breathing in.” which becomes “Bi,1kt1abi.”
I make some substitutions, like the number “1″ for the capital “I”, and use the correct punctuation, and Bob’s your uncle, you end up with a great and very memorable password.

Use a secure “wallet” to store your passwords in. Put an easy to remember pass on your wallet, and then you can use incredibly strong (and impossible to remember) passwords for everything else. Just don’t lose that wallet.

dpucfq hfgj nkfwjobhp qcvnrixf nwuahty iqptg amvlkp

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Mac users: just plunk down a few Hamiltons and buy 1Password from Agile Software. I got it a year or so ago. It generates, stores, classifies, and makes everything available (protected, of course) online. (I don’t work for them or glean any benefit from saying this. It’s just a GREAT program, and the guys are outstanding with tech support.)

I read this article for myself but also my mother see we have someone who is remotely always trying to figure out our login passwords. Passwords are important as they are one of the most important cornerstones of Computer security.
My mother hates me when I tell her what kind of passwords I recommend because they are brutal passwords that are hard to remember however with a lot of effort and time you can remember them easily. My mother wants easy to remember but hard to crack passwords you might just have the answer