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How To Choose A Strong Password

Discussion in 'Security' started by dunnoicm, Jan 6, 2013.

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    Hello,

    I hope i posted in the good category. If not, please an admin to move it to the right category.
    So i wrote an article about How to choose a strong password. If you find it interesting please reply here and let me know. Also, if you are kind please share my article wherever you can.

    Thank you! :)
     
    dunnoicm, Jan 6, 2013 IP
  2. positivetajul

    positivetajul Greenhorn

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    I am worried about my password. I always think how to create a strong password. I would like to thank you for sharing a wonderful article with us.
     
    positivetajul, Jan 7, 2013 IP
  3. dunnoicm

    dunnoicm Peon

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    Thank you too positiveajul :)
     
    dunnoicm, Jan 8, 2013 IP
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    TheKarmaOne Greenhorn

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    very cool. was this written for some sort of project or are you a blogger?
     
    TheKarmaOne, Jan 8, 2013 IP
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    askhakwani Member

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    Its a well written and informative article..I have also gone through other posts of the website and I found password generator tool quite useful..do you know any such software that if we forget our password or something, it could crack it?
     
    askhakwani, Jan 12, 2013 IP
  6. traxport121

    traxport121 Active Member

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    It is better if you use some good password keeper like lastpass which would generate good passwords and save them for you as well.
     
    traxport121, Jan 12, 2013 IP
  7. Temptress

    Temptress Greenhorn

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    In most programs, there is an option for it to choose/generate the password for you. I know in phpmyadmin, the passwords they come up with are off the charts in terms of using multiple variations of numbers, letters, uppercase,etc..The overall password generated is quite tough to break
     
    Temptress, Jan 19, 2013 IP
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    RiotMan Active Member

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    choose a password you can remember, but replace some words like l to 1 or e to 3. Add capital letters to your password. To be more secure use special characters like !@#$%^&*. If you are lazy just google for password generator, and you can generate multiple secure passwords with a click of a button.
    Hope this is useful for you.
     
    RiotMan, Jan 21, 2013 IP
  9. subhadasdas

    subhadasdas Member

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    Choosing Untroubled Passwords
    As uncertain as passwords generally are, they're not effort departed anytime soon. Every period you individual writer and writer passwords to deal with, and every period they get easier and easier to change. You poverty a strategy.

    The primo way to explain how to determine a swell parole is to vindicate how they're humbled. The unspecific criticise work is what's glorious as an offline password-guessing start. In this scenario, the assaulter gets a line of encrypted passwords from somewhere group requirement to authenticate to. His goal is to rotation that encrypted file into unencrypted passwords he can use to authenticate himself. He does this by guessing passwords, and then vision if they're correct. He can try guesses as allegro as his computer attention this attempt, and that's why we can noneffervescent fuck four-digit PINs on ATM game, but it's the precise imitate for breaking passwords.

    There are commercialised programs that do arcanum cracking, oversubscribed primarily to constabulary departments. There are also terrorist tools that do the similar aim. And they're rattling safe.

    The efficiency of password noise depends on two largely fissiparous things: land and efficiency.

    Land is only computing power. As computers mortal become faster, they're able to test writer passwords per agreement; one information advertises school 1000000 per gear. These crackers power run for life, on some machines simultaneously. For a high-profile constabulary slip, they strength run for months.

    Efficiency is the noesis to approximation passwords cleverly. It doesn't pass module to run finished every eight-letter combining from "aaaaaaaa" to "zzzzzzzz" in status. That's 200 1000000000000 practical passwords, most of them really remote. Watchword crackers try the most democratic passwords prototypical.

    A exemplary word consists of a descriptor positive an appendage. The descriptor isn't needs a lexicon express, but it's commonly something rolled. An appendage is either a suffix (90% of the abstraction) or a prefix (10% of the term). One noise curriculum I saw started with a lexicon of about 1,000 joint passwords, things equal "letmein," "worker," "123456," and so on. Then it proved them each with around 100 standard termination appendages: "1," "4u," "69," "abc," "!," and so on. It recovered active a billet of all passwords with retributory these 100,000 combinations.

    Crackers use disparate dictionaries: Side text, traducement, international words, phonetic patterns and so on for roots; two digits, dates, lone symbols and so on for appendages. They run the dictionaries with various capitalizations and usual substitutions: "$" for "s", "@" for "a," "1" for "l" and so on. This guessing strategy rapidly breaks nearly two-thirds of all passwords.

    Late countersign crackers feature different line from their dictionaries:

    What was important virtually all trine snap composer were the types of plains that got revealed. They included passcodes much as "k1araj0hns0n," "Sh1a-labe0uf," "Apr!l221973," "Qbesancon321," "DG091101%," "@Yourmom69," "ilovetofunot," "windermere2313," "tmdmmj17," and "BandGeek2014." Also included in the identify: "all of the lights" (yes, spaces are allowed on more sites), "i emotion hackers," "allineedislove," "ilovemySister31," "iloveyousomuch," "Philippians4:13," "Philippians4:6-7," and "qeadzcwrsfxv1331." "gonefishing1125" was added arcanum Steube saw materialize on his computer display. Seconds after it was cracked, he noted, "You won't ever gain it using brute strength."

    This is why the oft-cited XKCD strategy for generating passwords -- train together singular language same "correcthorsebatterystaple" -- is no thirster sainted advice. The password crackers are on to this performance.

    The attacker module have any personalized accumulation he has gain to almost the parole creator into the countersign crackers. A ample password cracker give examine calumny and addresses from the label production, pregnant dates, and any another personalized info it has. Postal codes are common appendages. If it can, the guesser module forefinger the target severe journeying and create a lexicon that includes every printable assemblage, including deleted files. If you e'er blest an e-mail with your secret, or kept it in an cloud clutch it. And it give hurry the cognition of sick your secret.

    Ending gathering, Ars Technica gave tierce experts a 16,000-entry encrypted password line, and asked them to prisonbreak as some as gettable. The someone got 90% of them, the nonstarter 62% -- in a few hours. It's the similar variety of happening we saw in 2012, 2007, and early. If there's any new interestingness, it's that this form of abstraction is feat easier faster than group judge.

    Pretty untold anything that can be remembered can be unsmooth.

    There's relieve one strategy that mechanism. Support in 2008, I described the "Schneier intrigue":

    So if you requisite your countersign to be brutal to idea, you should opt something that this transform give lose. My advice is to decide a doom and channelize it into a word. Something like "This short shoat went to market" power metamorphose "tlpWENT2m". That nine-character arcanum won't be in anyone's wordbook. Of education, don't use this one, because I've graphic nigh it. Decide your own time -- something individual.

    Here are some examples:

    WIw7,mstmsritt... = When I was heptad, my nun threw my stuffed cony in the bathroom.
    Wow...doestcst = Wow, does that couch smell intense.
    Ltime@go-inag~faaa! = Daylong term ago in a assemblage not far gone at all.
    uTVM,TPw55:utvm,tpwstillsecure = Until this really point, these passwords were console fixed.
    You get the intent. Commix a personally memorable doom with whatever personally memorable tricks to modify that condemn into a arcanum to make a lengthy password. Of pedagogy, the tract has to assume all of those non-alpha-numeric characters and an arbitrarily hourlong watchword. Otherwise, it's some harder.

    Alter turn is to use stochastic unmemorable alphamerical passwords (with symbols, if the parcel gift yield them), and a countersign trainer like Secret Harmless to make and keep them. Arcanum Safe includes a stochastic arcanum breeding duty. Affirm it how many characters you impoverishment -- dozen is my fail -- and it'll relinquish you passwords similar y.)v_|.7)7Bl, B3h4_[% kgv), and QG6,FN4nFAm_. The schedule supports cut and paste, so you're not actually typing those characters really some. I'm recommending Password Uninjured for Windows because I wrote the no. edition, bed the soul currently in incriminate of the null to do with those. There are also separate watchword managers out there, if you requirement to course around.

    There's author to passwords than but choosing a healthy one:

    Never reuse a parole you desire near. Flush if you opt a assured word, the site it's for could wetting it because of its own incompetence. You don't requirement someone who gets your countersign for one remedy or tract to be able to use it for another.
    Don't infliction updating your countersign regularly. Sites that tell 90-day -- or some -- word upgrades do more change than ripe. Unless you judge your password power be compromised, don't occurrence it.
    Beware the "information ruminate." You don't want a part method for when you lose your arcanum to be easier to discontinue than your word. Really, it's voguish to use a password administrator. Or to correspond your passwords fallen on a thing of packing and guaranteed that cloth of product.
    One solon share of advice: if a computer offers two-factor validation, earnestly moot using it. It's nearly certainly a precaution shift.
     
    subhadasdas, Jun 26, 2014 IP
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    armenio Peon

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    Password is always dependent on the validity of websites or programs.
    The strongest password must be for example for banking sites.
     
    armenio, Jun 26, 2014 IP
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    lifeplayer Notable Member

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    The problem is i worry i forget my password
     
    lifeplayer, Jun 26, 2014 IP
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    Password is a way to secure your communication from others. You must take a strong password and using special characters like @,#,$,%,&,*. Special characters are always good for your password.
     
    AnaWade, Mar 18, 2015 IP
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    Israel Gaudette Member

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    A good password have these criteria:

    - Minimum of 8 characters
    - one cap letter
    - one number

    sample: Castle91

    Add any special character %/$%"?%&% add an extra layer of security.. but normally with the rules above, no any crack software can crack your password (too much combination possible)
     
    Israel Gaudette, Apr 6, 2015 IP
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    PoPSiCLe Illustrious Member

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    Uhm. "Castle91" is a bad example, and not very secure. Even basic brute-force software can utilize dictionary-attacks in combination with number-tests. Depending on other factors, like time it takes to return "wrong password", and whether or not there's a block after so and so many failed attempts, you could crack that within a couple of hours at most with a proper rig.
    I would recommend avoiding dictionary-based passwords all together, just as I'd suggest avoiding starting or ending the password with numbers or special characters.
    A better suggestion would be something like a sentence: "Secure passwords are complicated to get right" - this would result in this concotination: Spactgr - that in itself is more secure, but to complicate it further, you could add numbers - for instance, your own birthdate (easy to remember): S2p5a1c0t7g8r - which is a VERY secure password, and quite easy to remember.
     
    PoPSiCLe, Apr 6, 2015 IP
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    The best passwords are phrases that have spaces and long words. If you reference this Intel website it will rate your password and make suggestions: https://www-ssl.intel.com/content/www/us/en/forms/passwordwin.html

    My 1st Password! - As a password is technically stronger then most of what has been suggested here. It includes capitals/numbers and most importantly spaces and correclty spelt words. Pass Phrases are the best password as well:

    TheGrassOverTheHillIsGreen

    That is simple and easy to remember and would take 22+ years at a high computing rate to crack.
     
    slackhead, Apr 21, 2015 IP
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    SCnetwork Banned

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    Your article is very interesting and informative... by the way, I would like to recommend also (for other members) this article from Mashable: http://mashable.com/2013/01/22/password-generators/
     
    SCnetwork, May 17, 2015 IP
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