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How to create a strong password for everyday use

Written By Jesse Nocom
Published • March 6th, 2022
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Ever wondered how hackers get into your system and how long it would usually take them to crack your passwords open? Hivesystems.io released a table to show just that.

How To Create A Secure Password

The brute force approach being talked about is a hashing-based algorithm that assumes the hacker has obtained a digest. Once standard password rules have been set, like for example 8 characters with special characters, there are more risks from password re-use across any platform along with social engineering, and identity theft.

That’s why we’ve come up with 7 simple ways of creating stronger passwords.

A strong password is always the initial line of defense against any cybersecurity threat. What’s puzzling is how often we tend to forget our passwords and end up having to reset them because we simply cannot remember the “strong passwords” which leaves the user frustrated.

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Bruce Schneier’s Method

Bruce Schneier suggests an ingenious approach to creating a password method. The advice is simple, and that is to take a sentence and turn it into a password. This would result in easily remembering the set passwords via hints if available. The designation of a series of characters comes next to assist in creating a “random” set of alphanumeric plus special characters passwords.

Some examples are:

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog = Th3qu!ckbr0wnf0xjumpsov3rth3l@zyd06

My Dog’s Name is Cat = Myd0gsn4m3!2c@+

The more random series of characters the stronger your password becomes. This assists users to remember a certain sentence instead of a string of random alphanumeric characters.

Online Password Generators

If time is of the essence and creating one on your own might be an issue, normally, there are websites like Google that tend to suggest a random string of alphanumeric characters. These are normally a combination of 10 or more alphanumeric and special characters.

Multi-Factor Authentication

With multi-factor authentication, users are required to provide at least twice to prove their identity. Despite being a hassle, it proves to be an effective way of keeping accounts secure. Normally, the initial step is to enter the password, next is either answering questions, or codes being sent to either your phone number or email. These are normally known as 2FAs and will cease most casual attacks.

Electrum Method

With cryptocurrency being the top craze since the pandemic hit, the Electrum Method manages the Bitcoin wallet and would require a 12-word seed to access the crypto wallet. Essentially, what can be done is the same approach and develop a 12-word phrase that would only apply to the user and create change a few alphabets into numbers and special characters.

A few reminders from your Yugatech Team is that these methods have already been publicized and ways to break into these defenses are being designed. Password creation may be imperfect and the best way to come up with great passwords is to be aware of the methods being used to break them.

Do you know of any other methods that can be used? Let us know in the comment section below.

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4 Comments

Lmt donato says:

3 years ago

How does brute force works ? most sites nowadays automatically locks the account if there are numerous attempts to login
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Paul says:

3 years ago

Chrome and Firefox both offer password generation for most websites when you create a new account or do a change password. It’ll be saved in that particular browser.
Although you have to remember to either copy-paste the details to a text file or set up a Google or Mozilla account for browser sync, since if your browser profile gets corrupted you won’t be able to recover the passwords.
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A says:

3 years ago

You can sync this with your Google account so that all your credentials are accesible in your other Chrome browsers and even in your Android smartphones and tablets.