Strong passwords are vital to help keep your online life safe and secure. Strong passwords can be easily created by the definition, which says “Strong passwords have – both upper and lower case letters, numbers and/or punctuation characters as well as letters and are seven or eight characters long”. However, the real challenge comes when using them, only after then you realize, it’s even easier to forget them. So, you should always create a password which is both strong and easier to remember. But, the question is how to do you make an ideal password. Here are some tips that can help you create better passwords :
- Create an acronym from something personal to you or your family, or something meaningful to you . For the sentence : “My 2 year old cat’s name is Lucy” ; the corresponding password can be “M2yrocniL”. You can always make a practice of adding some special characters at some fixed location. So, after applying the trick, the final password may look like : “M2yrocniL#” or “#M2yrocniL”.
- Pick a word or serveral words but omit the vowels and add numbers and special characters. For “mysafebox rocks” , the password can be created as “my5fbx+rck5″ and when added a special character, the password can be “my5fbx+rck5#” or “#my5fbx+rck5″.
- Create an acronym from a known sequence, like “If you are happy and you know” ; the corresponding password can be created as “!furhappy&un0″.
- Use this conversion trick to come up with a strong password which is easier to remember : a=@, b=6, e=3, i=1 (or !), l=1 (or l=!), o=0, s=5 (or s=$), t=+, and so on. Applying this tip – a password like “mysafebox” can be converted to “my5@f360X” which is a strong password that is easy to remember.
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