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Choosing good passwords

Some simple guidelines that will help you choose better passwords.

"How hard is it to choose a good password? Most people believe that choosing a good password is easy. After all, how is somebody going to guess my wife's maiden name?" Source AusCERT GoodPasswords

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Some simple password rules:

  • A password should be a minimum of eight characters long.
  • Try to include some form of punctuation or digit.
  • Use mixed case passwords if possible.
  • Choose a phrase or a combination of words, that make the password easier to remember.
  • Do not use a word that can be found in any dictionary (including foreign language dictionaries).
  • Do not use a keyboard pattern such as qwertyui or oeuidhtn (look at a Dvorak keyboard).
  • Do not repeat any character more than once in a row like zzzzzzzz.
  • Do not use all punctuation, all digit or all alphabetic.
  • Do not use things that can be easily determined such as:
  • Phone numbers.
  • Car registration.
  • Friends' or relatives' names.
  • Your name or employment details.
  • Any Date.
  • Never use your account name as its password.
  • Use different passwords for each machine.
  • Change the password regularly and do not reuse passwords.
  • Do not append or prepend a digit or punctuation mark to a word.
  • Do not reverse words.
  • Do not replace letters with similar looking numbers. For instance, all of the letters i should not be blindly replaced replaced by the digit 1.


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