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mosaix · 21st March 2007, 07:00 PM

The problem people have with passwords is that they the more complex they are to crack, the more difficult they are to remember leading to people writing them down - fatal.

Alternatively if people want them to be easy to remember, they make them simple and hence, easy to crack.

Here a good way to generate a passord.

1) Take a dictionary and find three, four character words, at random.

2) String them together into a single password

3) Change all O's to zeroes, all i's to 1's, e's to 3's. Or anything else you can think of.

4) Capitalise some letters according to a private rule.

Here's and example:

does, hilt, ride

Becomes D03sh1ltR1D3

Looking at the password it seems be a random jumble of letters but, infact, as long as the first three words are remembered then the rest follows. In this case I chose to capitalise all d's and r's but I could have chosen say, the first and last characters - so long as the rule is memorable.

By the way don't stick with three, four character words if you don't want. 2 x 6 or 4 x 3 are just as good. The point is that they are memorable TO YOU, and so are the remaining rules.

21st March 2007, 07:00 PM	#22 (permalink)
mosaix Registered User Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Shropshire Posts: 1,620	Re: How to prevent hacking The problem people have with passwords is that they the more complex they are to crack, the more difficult they are to remember leading to people writing them down - fatal. Alternatively if people want them to be easy to remember, they make them simple and hence, easy to crack. Here a good way to generate a passord. 1) Take a dictionary and find three, four character words, at random. 2) String them together into a single password 3) Change all O's to zeroes, all i's to 1's, e's to 3's. Or anything else you can think of. 4) Capitalise some letters according to a private rule. Here's and example: does, hilt, ride Becomes D03sh1ltR1D3 Looking at the password it seems be a random jumble of letters but, infact, as long as the first three words are remembered then the rest follows. In this case I chose to capitalise all d's and r's but I could have chosen say, the first and last characters - so long as the rule is memorable. By the way don't stick with three, four character words if you don't want. 2 x 6 or 4 x 3 are just as good. The point is that they are memorable TO YOU, and so are the remaining rules.