Here's a little cartoon that illustrates one of the common pitfalls we fall into when creating passwords. The good news is that it's possible to make a password that's much stronger and much easier to remember.
Source: https://xkcd.com
How to Create a Password that's Easy to Remember and Hard to Crack
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If you want an easy way to apply this, here's a password generator that will let you use the xkcd method.
Tip: Use a symbol between words
https://xkpasswd.net/s/
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Thx for that
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Another good site for generating passwords:
https://www.random.org/passwords/
Those are not based on some pseudo-random generator, but on atmospheric noise. Impossible to remember though...
Also never forget that a site that is offering to create a password for you might be actually used to steal your newly generated password. So in case you use any of these sites, make sure to create a large number of passwords and only use one of those.
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If you can remember it then it isn't secure. You need over 128 bits of entropy. This is why steemit generates the password for you and doesn't let users generate their own (without really knowing what they are doing).
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Indeed, Steemit is the public site with the highest safety I've ever met on the Internet.
To secure our account, Steemit generates the password for us and does not allow us to set our own password.
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I like it, however it is the amount of passwords that creates the memorization complication. I know that having one password for all or most of your accounts is not recommended but, considering the difficulty, would it be alright to do so in this case?
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nice post
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I use https://1password.com/ and it's been great. The password generator allows you to create a password of characters or a string of words like the cartoon suggests.
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Maybe you can use a password manager were you would use a masterpassword which is created by this method. One that has many characters but easy to remember...
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a better password would have some extra numbers at the end.
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very interesting!
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nice post
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THANKs
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Great article. short, precise and informative.
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Look nice to see this crypto ilustration, a lot of emotion and meaning. For me cryto today have change our live better foward.
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Using this method to create a master password is very effective along with a password manager such as Keepass .
Keepass is the most versatile and secure password manager that I know of and the best part is that it is free.
You can find downloads and more information here http://keepass.info/index.html
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The xkcd post is pretty good advice, and would lead to much better passwords than what most people currently have, but it's not unbreakable. The biggest risk with that kind of password is dictionary attacks, where instead of guessing alphabets, the software guesses combinations of common words.
The problem with that password is that the words used are extremely commonly used, and thus would be tried in any dictionary attack. The best way to do it is to use 3-4 non-common words. That is a pretty strong password.
Alternatively, you could use a password manager, and have it generate a random 16-character password.
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Yes, that's what I do with 1Password, usually going with five words. Thanks!
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There is no such things like unbreakable password - so we are not looking for them. We are looking for passwords which will be very hard to break, so to be broken it would take extreme high costs within extreme long period of time. This is the first thing. The second one is, that I am to lazy to do the math, and I do not know how many common words are there in English, but I am guessing that entropy of such password is still higher than this first hard to remember password in cartoon.
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thx for sharing!
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