Comments on: Password Strength

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 08 Apr 2006 11:16:16 +0000

The best way I have found to create easily remembered and relative strong passwords is to use a combination of a name plus a year (i.e. stewart1937) and then create a mnemonic to remember it – simple, strong and (if you create the right mnemonic) easily remembered.

By: Polizeros

Polizeros — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 16:33:10 +0000

http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net/
Originally created by Bruce Schneier. EZ to use, powerful. Stores passwords, will create them too, if you want.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 01:52:41 +0000

A nonsensical pass phrase is both quite secure and generally easy to remember. For example:
engineer stellar geek
It's long enough and you can play with the spacing or add a extra character to muck with dictionary attacks.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 20:42:33 +0000

I've recently subscribed to the idea of pass-phrases instead of passwords.
Something like: “Have a nice day.” will be much easier for me to remember, and will pass most password strength checkers.
Also, I can use it to reinforce certain things… meaning, if I am looking to improve on certain skills, I can use my password to remind me to do that.
Recently, Ive been learning how to speak better in public, and one the biggest things for me is saying “uh” and “um”. I can create a password that reflects the desired behaviour and everytime I type it, Im reminded of it.
Just my $.02.

By: Scott K.

Scott K. — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 19:49:19 +0000

I like to use a public and private key kind of thing. I use a secret set of characters and then append something neumonic from the site or system involved. And if you ever need something really random and strong use Steve Gibson's site