How to choose the most secure password possible

stevemcol

Agree, keepass is excellent. You'll never have to remember another password. It can also generate very strong random passwords automatically or using mouse movement as a randomiser.

I've lied; you will have to remember one password which will be the overall lock for keypass itself.

amcluesent

>I think passwords can be made TOO secure.<

Info assurance people are too keen on spouting 'the rules' (They also have tiny winkles and make up for this by giving people hassle). I gave up following the company rules after forgetting my password and being locked out the network for a morning.

Now I choose a password that meets their complexity rules, but then type it into a password vault on my mobile phone (SplashID).

feival

I too use Keepass. I now remember one long long password and the rest I don't need to worry about!

DrSmutt

Make a sentence and use the first or last letters, every 3 letters what ever you want really as long as you remember which method you are using.

CaN YoU GuesS MY PassworD = CYGMP or NUSYD

that means you could have it written down in front of someone and they wont even know it.

MadCowMan

A long pass phrase is supprisingly hard to brtue force , yet quite easy to remeber.

eg.

"My Dog has Brown Ears"

sometimes you might not be able to use the spaces , and you can do a simple substitution for a vowel to a number (eg. 4 for a)

to give you
MyDogH4sBrownE4rs

1 Easy to remember 18 Character strong password - you could double the length of that and still remember it just as easily.

Omertron

MadCowMan wrote:

sometimes you might not be able to use the spaces , and you can do a simple substitution for a vowel to a number (eg. 4 for a)

to give you
MyDogH4sBrownE4rs

Most modern software will allow you to use characters that are on the keyboard, and therefore you should add punctuation into the sentence to make it harder to guess.
Hence:
My.Dog,H4s-Brown.E4rs