Setting Strong passwords discussion

[JHF1870]

My problem with password protection is now I have too many passwords to remember which doesn't make it very secure at all. I have my standard password but some require a capital letter, some a number or a combination of the two. For a few you cannot exceed a certain number of characters and others have a minimum amount. Even worse are those that require a password change every couple of months and they can't be similar to any you have used before! Add to this all the different types of usernames and it is becoming a real mess.

You could always do what I mentioned earlier.

|initials-Website-month-year| So each website password gets changed periodically, and contains a special character, one initial for first letter of initials.

You could change it to whatever you want. Essentially only the date and website change. Easy to remember.

 

[JuddsABlue]

I pride myself on having a different passwords for all of my accounts

They probably arent 'uncrackable' using brute computer power, however they are extremely random

 

[SugarShane]

I have my standard password but some require a capital letter, some a number or a combination of the two. For a few you cannot exceed a certain number of characters and others have a minimum amount.

That's my concern. My standard password, that i first started using years ago before any of the strong password palaver, was just 6 letters, all lower case. Let's just say it was batman (it's not). So for a while all my passwords were batman. Then some needed numbers, then some needed capitals. At first i just added my old footy number to the end, so it became batman4. Then the 8 characters minimum became more common. So now it's just a complete mish mash of batman, batman4, batman00, Batman00, and others where stinking symbols are needed.

 

[TassieEagle]

That's my concern. My standard password, that i first started using years ago before any of the strong password palaver, was just 6 letters, all lower case. Let's just say it was batman (it's not). So for a while all my passwords were batman. Then some needed numbers, then some needed capitals. At first i just added my old footy number to the end, so it became batman4. Then the 8 characters minimum became more common. So now it's just a complete mish mash of batman, batman4, batman00, Batman00, and others where stinking symbols are needed.

I am in exactly the same boat. it sucks not knowing whether you have to batman or Batman00@.

I have better passwords for things like banking and anything financial but for forums and stuff I use my one general password, or variations of.

 

[PastiesPeake]

I have better passwords for things like banking and anything financial but for forums and stuff I use my one general password, or variations of.

That's not great password management. Lets say I guess your password for your Gmail account and I use the forgot password feature for your Comm bank account?

You should be using strong and unique passwords for all applications.

Just use Keypasss, that way you only need to remember 1 password. Keepass will even generate strong passwords for you.

 

[The_Reaper]

I used my old dial up password.

The secret question and the hints are completely unrelated.

 

[TassieEagle]

That's not great password management. Lets say I guess your password for your Gmail account and I use the forgot password feature for your Comm bank account?

You should be using strong and unique passwords for all applications.

Just use Keypasss, that way you only need to remember 1 password. Keepass will even generate strong passwords for you.

I should be, yes but I am in too deep now

All of my important ones are unique and pretty strong and e-mail I consider pretty darn important. Plus my bank has no forgotten password feature, have to ring them

It things like here, other forums and online games are where my passwords are pretty crappy.

 

[Xtreme]

I used to use school subject codes for several website and e-mail logins. After hotmail and other sites started to enforce the "when you come up with a new password you are unable to reuse a password you have used previously" rule i had to improvise. Sometimes it would be a dodgy phrase followed by the year. Sometimes it's a short line from a particular song - followed by the current year. Sometimes it is a mix of capital and lowercase letters with numbers 2 or 3 times.

I randomly guessed what my phone banking password was recently (originally set it back in 2001 - had only needed to use it ONCE in 13 years). And that was my old high school combination lock code for my locker back in '95/'96.

 

[JHF1870]

That's not great password management. Lets say I guess your password for your Gmail account and I use the forgot password feature for your Comm bank account?

You should be using strong and unique passwords for all applications.

Just use Keypasss, that way you only need to remember 1 password. Keepass will even generate strong passwords for you.

Can you review keypass for us

 

[PastiesPeake]

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2407168,00.asp

 

[Hank Scorpion]

Studying chemistry leaves you with an arsenal of possible passwords

 

[TassieEagle]

Studying chemistry leaves you with an arsenal of possible passwords

That has gotta be a bit of a mole.

 

[JHF1870]

Paypal is a ****ing joke

So it turns out I can't have the following password

|Rjc79 (Followed by any combination of letters numbers characters up to the maximum, simply because it has my initials. They're a ****ing joke. Who's going to hack 18 characters just because it has my initials

 

[Shupe]

59 years to crack mine apparently. It's just a common word, with a capital at the start and exclamation mark at the end.

 

[Nothing]

59 years to crack mine apparently. It's just a common word, with a capital at the start and exclamation mark at the end.

Password!

 

[darcytiger]

My normal password for unimportant shit (Websites, other random crap that I don't really care about the security of) - 39 days
Bank account password - 412 years
Work computer account - 58 years

 

[BG32]

Davidneitzrulz

 

[Upgrayedd]

i put the number 1 infront of my normal password (It's password) if the stupid thing makes me put numbers in it as well

 

[Upgrayedd]

nathanlonieismyfavouriteplayer was my password for one of my work e-mails

Good luck, Not even some sort of supercomputer would get that one

 

[Dagless]

Bank Account password - 15 hours
BigFOoty password - 344 thousand years

 

[bkozican]

You know your password is good when the next time you login you have to click "forgot you password" and do it all again

 

[Papa Juggs]

Bank password - 1000 years
Bigfooty - 0.77 seconds

Go on and hack me

 

[MarcMaverick]

 

[JHF1870]

Been reading about how people are using wordlists to create passwords. Through brute force, a 30 digit password would take forever, but using a combination of words from dictionaries could hack a long worded password fast.
Also noticed they were identify passwords based on the way people create them. Most people have numbers at the end of their password.
I still reckon the best way to do it is simple but effective

Use every combination of characters followed by the website name, with the same combination
|1aA$ô(facebook)
|1aA$ô(twitter) etc.

Easy to remember, hard to hack

 

[ash_1050]

Bank of Melbourne doesn't allow special characters when creating a password which seems to be a large oversight given it's your banking details ffs.