How good is my password?

[beethoven]

Just wondering how good a password is with the following criteria:

- non-dictionary
- 16 fields
- letters, digits, symbols
- small cap & large cap

[FadeAway]

Some info here:

http://www.lockdown.co.uk/?pg=combi&s=articles

http://www.microsoft.com/athome/secu...d_checker.mspx

[beethoven]

Great link - thanks

[LoneWolf]

Hmmm............
Rethinking the strenths of my passwords now.
Maybe time to make them stronger.
Thanks for the links, very educating.

[Sully]

You might like this

http://www.pctools.com/guides/password/

Sul.

[LoneWolf]

Originally Posted by Sully

You might like this

http://www.pctools.com/guides/password/

Sul.

Thanks
Very useful

[Sully]

I was once told to simply make a sentence with proper grammar for the best password, especially if it has numbers. Something like perhaps

"So tonight I'm gonna party like it's 1999"

Sul.

[beethoven]

Originally Posted by Sully

I was once told to simply make a sentence with proper grammar for the best password, especially if it has numbers. Something like perhaps

Sul.

hmmm, I must have missed "gonna" in my grammar lessons

[GlobalForce]

That'ud be "spatial" gramma.

S

[Foxfired]

It's helpful if you combine two words together and switch letters. For example horse + goat would be "hgooraste" Looks like a meaningless word to others but much easier to remember yourself.

[EASTER]

Try ths little known app. It will fashion you a password which is literallly impossible to ever find no matter what app a cracker might try to use.

Check it out.

http://www.sdean12.org/PasswordGen.htm

[jrmhng]

What I normally do to create passwords that are not easy to crack but easy to remember is to goto a name generator like at Seventh Scantum to create something that is fictional and unusual. Then I just change some of the letters into numbers and symbols (borrowing a little from leet speak) and adding in some random capitalization and a few other things.

Take an example. Generate a wierd science.

Metavirometrics

and change that to

*m37@V1r0m37r1c5

That is 86 bits which is plenty.