Thursday, December 4, 2008

Strong Passwords (How to Create Them)




What is a strong password and how can you create an effective one? You can determine the effectiveness of a password by how many trials a hacker would need to guess it correctly. The strongest passwords have mixes of uppercase, lowercase, numbers, and punctuation such as Jpl#12Ust$. Other strong passwords are usually built from a phrase that a user can memorize such as, The password for (4) this computer is too (2) strong for you to (4U2) guess!, which can be turned into the phrase, Tp4tci2s4U2g!.
Basically any random numbers, letter, and punctuation that you can remember are the strongest passwords. Even though these passwords might be harder to remember, when it comes to keeping hackers out of your business, they are very effective. If you are having trouble creating a password you can go to http://strongpasswordgenerator.com/ to have a strong password made for you. If you want to make sure the password you have is strong enough you can go to http://www.microsoft.com/protect/yourself/password/checker.mspx to test you own password.

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