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How Strong Are Your Passwords?
Posted By Eric Ptak On March 4, 2006 @ 11:01 pm In Science and Technology | No Comments
I run 2 websites; my personal site and a BBS for my family to use for family matters. I also do a lot of things on-line, and it seems that every site I access needs a password. I would guess that I have perhaps over a hundred sites that use passwords. Password security is a very important thing for me.
There are different kinds of passwords: weak, medium, and strong. Weak passwords are simple short, and easy to figure out: cat, dog, mommy, sister, or family. Medium passwords are a little better; they will often combine letters and numbers, are longer, and are a little more difficult to figure out: way2goman, number1guy, 1of9boys, high54you. Strong passwords have a few more requirements:
The ISP I use just added a new feature: when changing a password, it tells you the relative strength of a password, that’s what got me going on this train of thought. I looked around, and found a password generator [1] and a password strength meter [2]. These are two really useful tools that can make security really easy, and I intend to use them early and often.
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[1] password generator: https://www.grc.com/passwords
[2] password strength meter: http://www.securitystats.com/tools/password.php
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