06/29/12 - Tip of the Day!
by Neal Fisch in data security, passwords, security, tips 0
Change from a password to a pass-phrase
It's better to use longer and more complicated passwords, but they are hard to remember. Try using a pass-phrase like "I love getting to work at 8:00!". It's long, easy to remember, and has a mix of upper case and lower case letters and symbols. Don't use familiar or famous quotations. Don't use any real names, especially your own, your family member's, or your pet's. Nonsensical pass-phrases are the hardest to crack. Because password cracking time increases exponentially, a criminal with substantial computing resources can crack short passwords quickly; while a 31-character (the length of our example) pass-phrase would take 231,935,475,118,605,000,000,000 years to crack! Best of all, it's easy to remember.