How to build secure passwords
| October 12th, 2008Most people are using too simple passwords, which they change maybe once in life. That is a big security issue. Besides, but with little effort it is possible to generate easily strong and secure passwords.
There is a password system, that is simple to learn and provides secure passwords, which are always different, but still easy to memorize.
The system can be based on two rules only:
- Generate a random sentence, which you can remember easily. Hint: Create a very special, weird sentence, so you wont forget it too soon, like: “To cook is fun with 5 Germans in town!”. From that sentence take always the first letter, that builds the first part of your secure password in this case: Tcifw5it!
- If you build a password for a website, then take for example the last letter in the main part of the URL as an addition. For example if you register on youtube.com: it will be the letter “e”.
Put those rules together and you have a dynamic and secure password algorithm. In this case you built Tcifw5it!e
It’s important that you use at least one number and one special character like “?” “!” “.” etc. in your secure password. Of course my own system has other rules, but be creative to make your own rules. For example, instead of the last letter of a URL, you can take the sum of the letters as an additional part to your strong password.
