How To Create a Secure Password That You Can Remember

Creating a secure and complex password is a must to secure your account. A complex and secure password means avoiding the following types of passwords

1. Short and Common Passwords: Common passwords are the easiest password that anyone (or any lazy person) would come up with. But they are also the easiest to guess. According to Wikipedia, some of the most common passwords used are:123456passwordqwerty111111Iloveyouabc123
2. Names and Birthdays – In guessing passwords, hackers might first try your name and birthday and any combinations of both. Then the names and birthdays of the people close to you.
3. Dictionary Words – Dictionary passwords are also easy to crack. Hackers could run a program that uses a file containing millions of dictionary words to ‘guess’ the password.

Unfortunately, many only users are still using these types of passwords these days. Worse, they are using the same password on different websites and applications. The reason is, a complex and secure password is also difficult to remember.

Would you remember a password like:

htCAsptyCr!

According to howsecureismypassword.net , it would take 200 years for a computer to crack this password. The question is, would I remember this? My answer is, YES!

Not that I am good at remembering senseless order of characters, I have a technique in creating a secure password that I’d like to share with you.

Step No 1. Prepare a copy of a poem, a prayer, lyrics of your favorite song, a book that you love.

For example, one of my favorite books is Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki.

Step 2: Take the first letter of each word and include any punctuation and make it the password:

rd,pdbyrk

This one looks good and secure enough. But according to the site I mentioned above it would only take 5 hours for a computer to crack this password.

Step 3. Decide which letters to turn to uppercase. Let’s you want all letters from A-E are in uppercase.

rD,pDByrk

Now it would take a computer for two weeks to crack this password.

Step 4. Add some numbers. Simply count the number of characters that your password has.

rD,pDByrk09

Here, I added a zero since we only have a single-digit number.

Now it would take 8 hundred years for a computer to crack the password. If a computer could live that wrong.

You can also add one or more special characters or even use space to make your password more complicated.

I hope this would help you create a more secure and complex password and would have a way of remembering them. The important thing is you can make your own rules. Like, what letters would be in uppercase, what number and special characters you would like to add.

As @DocAnderson would always say, change your password regularly!

And on a personal note, I did not enter any of the passwords that I use on howsecureismypassword.net.