Moderated Re: help required for remembering passwords
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Steve Matzura
Here's another idea for making up individual passwords in case you aren't comfortable with the password-generation portion of a password manager. I call it using a password formula. Think of a root, either a favorite word or character combination--let's say for the sake of an example, today's date, March 31. Now let's add to that string at least one punctuation symbol. For example's sake, let's use the left square bracket symbol, '['. Now we have a string that looks like this:
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March31[ Now, let's think about the service we want to log onto. For example's sake, let's say it a grocery delivery service, like one we have here in New York called Fresh Direct. Let's generate a four-character code out of the two words "Fresh Direct" by taking the first two vowels, e and i, and the first two consonants, f and r. Now our string looks like: March31[eifr Do this for every site you want to log onto. Of course, these passwords will be stored in your password manager, but a good and valid reason to use a password formula is that if you ever need that password and you're not using a computer that uses the password manager you normally use and it doesn't have your password store, you can still log on to that Website by remembering the formula you used when you made up the password. So now you're protected twice. Once by the password manager's master unlock password, and once by remembering the formula you used to create the passwords so if something happens to your password vault, or you're out somewhere and you need to get in to a password-protected site, you're covered. On 3/31/2018 1:01 PM, Cristóbal wrote:
Well, it would in theory be easier to remember one master password rather than trying to keep track of X number of passwords and what account they correspond to. |
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