PDG
10/19/2004, 06:53 AM
I thought I'd post this for the sake of user education.
Since I work at a rather secure place, passwords are taken very seriously. Upon my recent trips to Paypal and other sites, I've noticed that their requirements are getting tougher and more stringent. A lot of the times, I see users struggling to come up with a password that has at least 1 number or capital letter. So here are some tips...
Take common letters and replace them with strange characters. For example,
a=@
i-1
e=3
o=0
s=$
So pixeladdiction, for example, will become p1x3l@dd1ct10n. Now that's pretty complicated, but with typical words it gets easier.
phido=ph1d0
crappyness=cr@ppyn3$$
allison=@ll1$0n
And please don't use birthdays or SSN's in your passwords. Anyways, I hope this helps. You should definitely use this technique for anything bank or money related. It's rock solid and very difficult to decrypt. I've done my good deed for the year.
Since I work at a rather secure place, passwords are taken very seriously. Upon my recent trips to Paypal and other sites, I've noticed that their requirements are getting tougher and more stringent. A lot of the times, I see users struggling to come up with a password that has at least 1 number or capital letter. So here are some tips...
Take common letters and replace them with strange characters. For example,
a=@
i-1
e=3
o=0
s=$
So pixeladdiction, for example, will become p1x3l@dd1ct10n. Now that's pretty complicated, but with typical words it gets easier.
phido=ph1d0
crappyness=cr@ppyn3$$
allison=@ll1$0n
And please don't use birthdays or SSN's in your passwords. Anyways, I hope this helps. You should definitely use this technique for anything bank or money related. It's rock solid and very difficult to decrypt. I've done my good deed for the year.