According to new findings published by the Georgia Institute of Technology, traditional 7 to 8-digit passwords can no longer guarantee a network’s security. Indeed, the increasing availability of powerful graphic processing units means that it is…

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add some punctuation between syllables as the brain is good at remembering that. This will create something like:

mEga)loOsh[We96

Which is surprisingly easy to remember if you thought it up.

Interestingly enough, from an attackers PoV, the single largest contributing factor to difficult to crack is the length of the password. For example, a 20 character password made up of all lowercase a’s is significantly less likely to be cracked or guessed than a highly complex 6 character password.

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Also, there’ve been some interesting statistical weaknesses in ‘first letter of a sentence’ passwords, and they aren’t recommended for high security applications. Rather think up a nonsensicle phonetic sound e.g ‘megalooshwe’ then capitalise some letters, *add* some numbers (not replace, replacing letters with numbers e.g. o to 0 adds little extra security), add some punctuation (e.g. .;!&’

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@Tom The examples given are simple enough for people not to remember them -especially the suffixes, I guess it is a balance between extra security and simplicity to remember. You can however, use the same techniques in Step 2 utilising your own rules for the suffixes as well.

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I work for Passpack which is an online password manager - it generates passwords, logs you safely into websites and stores your passwords so that only you have access to them - not even Passpack can see them!

http:passpack.com

You could save yourself time and memory by using tailored applications.

Hope it helps!

Louise

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