How Do You Create A Strong Password?

[mad0maxx]

How Do You Create A Strong Password? Also generally do all sites accept special characters like !@#$?

 

[Alone]

Originally posted by: mad0maxx
Also generally do all sites accept special characters like !@#$?

Yes.

 

[swimscubasteve]

stop cussing

 

[bignateyk]

Many sites do not accept characters like !@#$%^&*()

Even some banking sites like PNC doesnt take them. I have a very strong password that uses some of those characters, but I cant use it at all places, so I have another version minus the symbols.

 

[mcurphy]

The best method to create a strong password that I have seen is to use a familiar sentence, and take only the first letter of each word. The you can replace some of the letters with symbols or numbers. Also, random caps is a good thing to add.

For example: Anadtech has the Best Forums on the Net.

Passowrd: AhtBFotN

W/ Symbols and numbers: @htBF0tN

I use this method for all my passwords. You can create an easy to remember string of letters, numbers, and symbols that is virtually unhackable.

 

[mad0maxx]

Do many sites recognize capital letters versus lower case letters?

 

[mcurphy]

Originally posted by: mad0maxx
Do many sites recognize capital letters versus lower case letters?

Yes, 99.9% of the time, your password is case sensitive.

 

[mad0maxx]

Thanks for all the info ^_^

 

[OutHouse]

sample of one i have used in the past.

!i@m@godtomort@ls!15$

 

[iroast]

Mad0!=Maxx is a good one

 

[iamwiz82]

Originally posted by: mcurphy
The best method to create a strong password that I have seen is to use a familiar sentence, and take only the first letter of each word. The you can replace some of the letters with symbols or numbers. Also, random caps is a good thing to add.

For example: Anadtech has the Best Forums on the Net.

Passowrd: AhtBFotN

W/ Symbols and numbers: @htBF0tN

I use this method for all my passwords. You can create an easy to remember string of letters, numbers, and symbols that is virtually unhackable.

A 12 character password of only lower cased letters is 10x stronger than an 8 character password with upper, lower, numbers, and symbols. Adding upper and lower to a long passphrase makes it pretty much uncrackable.

I prefer passphrases to strong. IAmTwentyFour, ItIsNowApril etc.

 

[FilmCamera]

Pick a password something like:

Ksd82J%ls@NkkO13$@lMn90AS

 

[mad0maxx]

Originally posted by: iroast
Mad0!=Maxx is a good one

LoL... you guys can check out this password strength tester I found

http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/privacy/password_checker.mspx

 

[SSSnail]

I typically think of a phrase and then insert random "leet speak" characters in there in substitution for actual alphabets, capitalization where there shouldn't be, then reverse the whole sentence, etc... If you want to crack my password, it's gonna take you a while.

 

[Electric Amish]

You have to get them when they are young and them raise them right. Training, exercise and a proper diet.

When they are gown-up they will be good and strong.

 

[Tiamat]

ive used 234wer@#$WER in the past

 

[Quasmo]

I have an 18 character alpha-numeric password it still says it's medium because it's only lower-case.

 

[pcslookout]

How do you all remember these passwords?

 

[Tiamat]

Originally posted by: pcslookout
How do you all remember these passwords?

mine are pattern based, they are very easy to type out on a qwerty keyboard.

 

[Gunslinger08]

A guy who used to work here used special characters in his passwords that you could only access using character map or alt + number combinations.

I just use 12-15 character passwords with numbers, symbols, and capitalization.

 

[SlowSpyder]

I always thought it'd be fun to make a password that is eight asterisks since that's how the passwords used to show up anyway. ********

 

[pcslookout]

Originally posted by: joshsquall
A guy who used to work here used special characters in his passwords that you could only access using character map or alt + number combinations.

I just use 12-15 character passwords with numbers, symbols, and capitalization.

How do you remember it in your head?

 

[eLiTeGoodGuy]

I just use 12345 as my password for everything.

 

[silverpig]

Take a short sentence, write it in 1337-sp43k, interject some symbols...

 

[Fritzo]

Use this one: 4g5e!kn9pYs2

Nobody will EVER figure that one out!