Password
From Sysadmin
On its own password authentication offers only minimal protection. Never-the-less a wide variety of online apps continue to rely on it and so creating good password is very important.
Recommendations
Passwords can be made fairly strong but following a few basic recommendations.
- Do not base your password on personal details such as your account username, the name, birthday of you or members of your family or your pets.
- Do not base your password on the details of well known historical figures, fictional characters or celebrities, especially ones that you are known to have an interest in.
- Do not base your password on a single word or phrases from popular culture, so as to avoid susceptibility to a dictionary attack.
- Do not use well known substitutions like 1 for I and 0 for 0. These are normally susceptible to a dictionary attack too.
Base your password on:
- Letters, numbers and special characters.
- Multiple words concatendated together
- Multiple nonsense words that are pronouncible.
