Saturday, July 25, 2009

Fix your totally insecure password in 1 minute

There is this interesting article on Slate called Fix Your Terrible, Insecure Passwords in Five Minutes The method mentioned is quite good but there is another way through which you can create strong password and it will probably not take more than one minute. And you can even continue using your current password.We are just going to make it very strong. Let us  start with a word that you will not forget that easily, any word will do ,even your current password, but I will start off with the word password. Using 'password' as a password is not only pointless but is also quite stupid. Let us insert two symbols in the word to get p@$$word. Replace the o with a zero to get p@$$w0rd. Now capitalize one of the letters, usually it is recommended to capatalize one of the latter letters but making p capital works too. So the final password comes to p@$$w0rd. This password is too short for using in a system environment but it is superb password for any user.

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