What is a Good Password?

 

A good password consists of a combination of letters, numbers, and special characters. It should have a minimum length of 8 characters. A combination of letters, numbers, and special characters is harder to guess since there are 30,000 times more possible combinations in comparison to an eight-character password that only uses lower-case letters.

Since it is hard to remember random alphanumeric passwords, we recommend abbreviating a sentence and turning it into a password. Use the words from the sentence and form a password.

Here are some examples by Bruce Schneier, security expert and CTO at Resilient,

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/06/a_really_good_a.html

Note: Before we gave these examples, these passwords were secure:

WIw12,mbtmotr... = When I was twelve, my brother threw me off the roof..

Puh...thatiaus::ebay.ccoomm = Puh, that is an ugly sweater.

Ou@time-twtlg~! = Once upon a time there were three little girls.

bWGTE,TPw5:bwgte,tpwweresecure = Before we gave the examples these passwords were secure.

WinRAR also has a built-in password manager to help you keep track of your passwords.

 

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