Comments on: Do you use a strong password? http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2004/09/06/do-you-use-a-strong-password/ I will not fix your computer. Tue, 04 Aug 2020 22:34:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.26 By: JuEeHa http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2004/09/06/do-you-use-a-strong-password/#comment-21426 Wed, 15 Feb 2012 15:37:39 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/?p=39#comment-21426

I use algorithm to create a password containing upper and lower case characters, numbers and special characters that is unique for that one place but not random using an algorithm. It is pretty easy to remember even though it contains a simple substitution cipher. It also produces pretty long passwords(The shortest being 13 chars and the longest being 70 chars). Even if it is pretty easy to use and it produces pretty strong passwords I use much stronger algorithm for my root/admin passwords. It is designed to be hard to do but easy enough that you can do it on your head and password is so complex that you can’t remember in in your head, but the components that produce the password are(2 min. 8 char not word chars strings, 3 number sequences and 2-3 special char strings). It produces passwords from 25 chars and up. I desingned it to secure system from both software and users(me).

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By: A. Student http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2004/09/06/do-you-use-a-strong-password/#comment-3 Wed, 20 Oct 2004 05:56:00 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/?p=39#comment-3

The problem with one-password-for-all is that it means 80% of your customers know the password of 80% of your other customers without even *needing* to hack into your computer.

Would it work to use a one-algorithm-for-all technique instead: eg, “Your password is the first four letters of your first name followed by the last three digits of your phone number”? Still not perfect, but slightly less easy to hack.

For a strong password, I generally choose a couple/few words that have some significance to me, and change one or two of the words to numbers along the a=1, b=2, etc system. Or you could use the phone abc=2, etc system.

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