What is the safest password to use?

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A password should be a combination of letters, numbers and symbols.

Somewhat like this

Asdf16___()@

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a pass like this: giveme100$

 

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A password should seem like its not the password.

Example-  notthepassword

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Don"t tell your password

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A password should be long.  That is even more important than using a mix of upper and lower-case letters, numbers, and symbols.

"A sentence like th1s would make a good passw0rd."

That's long, and it's fairly easy to remember.

You should also be using a password vault such as Keepass.  And you should NOT use the same password across multiple sites.  If one site gets hacked, you don't want the hackers to try that password on a bunch of other sites and have access to everything else you do online.

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MGleason wrote:

A password should be long.  That is even more important than using a mix of upper and lower-case letters, numbers, and symbols.

Long is more important than the mix?  I beg to differ!

 

So what is long to you? 20 characters?  Ok.  How about this one?

 

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

 

Safe as can be!

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qazxcvbnmlpokjhgfdswertyuio1234567890[;,./']\=- 

 

Try typing that

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I use Last Pass and choose always for the longest (max 99 characters) and most diverse password. For example : ^pKgX@4j98&cV#AGvwYn!W1cwkVG*l#P48Xn77GJxGuJff$$S3UCVdgMusZmIWS!Ow4VSv$805b@8qVju9uEFrC6og#98FTE!r$

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Obviously, a long password of a single character is not a good idea.  Especially if it's the letter "a", since that's one of the first things likely to be guessed in a brute-force attack.

But as I posted earlier, we've trained ourselves to use short, highly complex passwords that are hard for a human to guess and hard for a human to remember, but easy for a computer to guess.  See https://xkcd.com/936/.  We can cut back on some of the complexity and make it easier to remember by going long instead.  Using a whole sentence is great, because then you can get a bit of punctuation in a manner that's easy to remember.

20 characters is pretty good, and 25-30 is better.  "correct horse battery staple" is many times more secure than "Tr0ub4dor&3", and much easier to remember.

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@FPTR, those passwords are great, but impossible to remember.  They're really good if you're copy/pasting out of a password vault like keepass or lastpass, though, since then you only have the password vault password to remember.

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Just use one letter... its unexpected. 

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"unexpected" passwords are no use against a brute force cracking attack by a computer.  They're also much more vulnerable to being guessed than you might think.

The most common password is "password".  "letmein" is another very common one.

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most uncommon password is your own username

like this

Username: mrchessguy

Password: mrchessguy

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or qwerty or mr you

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your own username for password

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how abot 

67#$^654%^*&(*&^%$#4578876543#%&^%334567@!@@#$^()(*&^(_++___++~~~!1

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very long and hard to remember

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incorrect

How about

incorrect

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so, if you get it wrong, than it will say "Your Password is incorrect"