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I have many email accounts ,and login accouts on many servers on which i work.I often get obfuscated with passwords of different accounts .Off course you might suggest to keep the same password, but the problem is if one gets hacked then problem surmounts.
After trying various methods, finally i came up with answers to two important questions.First is method of generating secure password and second is how to manage passwords of many accounts.
To generate good password,one method i follow is, first take some sentence of english that you like, say "Google is the mother of all search engines".Pick the first,last or any letter from each word in a sentence.I pick here the first letter of each word.Then append each letter,that will generate a highly secure and easy to remember passwords.The password for the above case becomes becomes "gitmoase".Voila!! see how easily ,cryptic and easily rememberable password can be generated.
Lets come to second case,generate the passwords for other accounts using the password generated in earlier case i,e "gitmoase" as template.Lets say you have created the account for Rediff account, you can keep it as "gitRmoase" ,insert the first letter of the site name "Rediff.com" as fourth letter of the password of that site,you can pick any letter and put at any place as your convenience.For yahoo keep it as "gitYmoase"("Yahoo.com) and so on.
Dont try to break my passwords using the same ;)
After trying various methods, finally i came up with answers to two important questions.First is method of generating secure password and second is how to manage passwords of many accounts.
To generate good password,one method i follow is, first take some sentence of english that you like, say "Google is the mother of all search engines".Pick the first,last or any letter from each word in a sentence.I pick here the first letter of each word.Then append each letter,that will generate a highly secure and easy to remember passwords.The password for the above case becomes becomes "gitmoase".Voila!! see how easily ,cryptic and easily rememberable password can be generated.
Lets come to second case,generate the passwords for other accounts using the password generated in earlier case i,e "gitmoase" as template.Lets say you have created the account for Rediff account, you can keep it as "gitRmoase" ,insert the first letter of the site name "Rediff.com" as fourth letter of the password of that site,you can pick any letter and put at any place as your convenience.For yahoo keep it as "gitYmoase"("Yahoo.com) and so on.
Dont try to break my passwords using the same ;)
2 comments:
Good to see you blogging Pradeep! I'll be tuned into this one as well..
Nice article on passwords by the way. If I might suggest one more, keep changing your template also every 6 months or so, for added security. For example, change the position of the site specific letter or its case, etc.
Its been so long i have visited my own blog !!!. so didn't see your comment , you are right pras, that adds up more security to password maintainance.
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