How to Create VERY STRONG Passwords that You Can Remember
It’s very difficult to create a strong password and remember it when it contains numbers and symbols, but here are some tips to remember a good password.
This method works by creating meanings for symbols:
! excitement, strong emotion
@ the letter A, the word “at”
# number, pound, tic-tac-toe
$ money, value, the letter S
% a part of something
^ raised eyebrow, upside down V
& the word “and”, this and that, twins
( the letter c, the moon
) the moon; anything lunar; crazy
* sunny, bright, starry
+ adding one thing to another
= balance, equanimity, this equals that
< this is less than that, this is younger than that
> this is greater than that, this is older than that
? unknown, variable, questionable
~ water, wind
But for a really secure random password (that you have no chance of remembering) try the GRC password generator. Thanks for the tip JT!
4 Comments, Comment or Trackback
Paul
Dunno if it was said (maybe JT is the one posting on whitesoap?) but this was posted on whitesoap ( http://whitesoap.com/story/424900/How+To+Create+Strong+Passwords+You+ll+Remember/ ) first, and its from lifehack.org ( http://www.lifehack.org/ )
Jun 20th, 2007
Jed
How I make my passwords: I use the alphanumerics on a phone. So I take my name Jed (533) and add to it something I love… let’s say MtDew (68339). Add those two together and I get 68872. Then I add the first letter of my name to the begging and an exclamation to the end and I end up with a password of “J68872!” Easy to refigure out if I forget it.
Jun 20th, 2007
roclar
Rather then create stronger passwords, you are probably better off going to passphrases. They are longer and generally easier to type since you are just typing a sentence even though I generally perform at least one character subsitution. Wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pass_phrase ) and Microsoft ( http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/columns/secmgmt/sm1004.mspx ) both have good articles on pass phrases.
Jun 20th, 2007
Dan
Thx Paul… Yea it was an email submission… Updated the post.
Jun 20th, 2007
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