What method of user identification is used in the modern computer world most often and everywhere? Of course, these are passwords familiar to everyone. The password protects the entrance to the Internet, access to documents and mail, computer loading and a wallet with electronic money, a personal account on social networks and a database in the office. A password, with all the simplicity of the very concept of protection, can become a fairly reliable obstacle in the path of an attacker.
However, unfortunately, users themselves are often so negligent in choosing a password that in fact they leave their data completely unprotected not only for professional hacking, but also for ordinary fans of computer hooliganism.
The most popular way to crack a password is the so-called brute force (brute force), that is, simply brute force. Of course, it is impossible to find a correctly created password of sufficient length in a reasonable time. But the most popular passwords are still "12345", "54321" and "qwerty". They are used by millions of people. It is not difficult to make a list of several hundred such "secret" passwords, and you can check them all in a split second. As you can see, creating a password is a rather serious and important task (of course, if your data, letters and electronic money are dear to you, and you are not ready to share them with the first person you come across).
How do you come up with a password that is strong enough? This is not so difficult to do, following a few simple rules:
- The password must be long. Passwords less than 10 characters are easily brute-forcing, even if the other conditions of a good password are met.
- The password must consist of a set of letters, numbers and symbols, and the letters must be in different case.
- The password should not be associated with the identity of its owner. This means that the date of birth, the spouse's maiden name and the name of the beloved cat are not suitable.
These requirements are quite simple, and it is easy to satisfy them: a chord blindly on the keyboard, then slightly diluted with letters in a different register, and the ideal password is ready. But here another problem lies in wait for the author of the password: the password must be remembered. After all, another common way to crack a password is to simply find where it is written. And notes with a password, as a rule, are stored somewhere near the computer, and in the worst case, they are completely glued to the monitor or even scratched right on its case.
How do you come up with a password that is also easy to remember?
Method one: use a specialized program or website, such as
Method two: take a phrase or a whole phrase ("I met you all," "what is so good, what is so bad," etc.), diluted with numbers, and a great, complex, but easy to remember password is ready. Check its quality at
