Saturday, September 5, 2015

Passwords vs. Passphrases

Over the years you will have been using a password, typically a single dictionary word with one or more numbers or punctuation characters incorporated.
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Words, however, are not all you have. Instead, consider phrases and short sentences, song titles and lyrics, favourite quotes or even something a child might have said to you. Once you’ve done this, take the first letter (or pair of letters in some cases) from each word in the passphrase and add in numbers where relevant to create your passphrase. This is passwords evolved.
Better still, using this tactic to create your passwords means an end to writing them down – which is a terrible habit to get into.
We’ve given a great deal of advice on the creation of passwords and passphrases over the years. Ryan’s look at creating secure and memorable passphrases is a great place to look into this topic in further detail.

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