I hate creating unique passwords, then trying to remember them.  Everything these days needs a username and password.  Obviously this information needs to be as secure as possible, yet still readily available.  I just ran on to this information that may be helpful to creating easy to remember passwords that are relatively secure . . . and that is creating PASSPHRASES.
The traditional advice has been to avoid dictionary words because they’re obviously vulnerable to dictionary attacks, but that’s only an issue when your password is one or two words. Use a whole phrase and it’s another story. With over 1,000,000 words in the English language alone, a 5 word phrase has 1000000^5 = 1.0 × 10^30 enumerations. Compare that to a “secure” password that’s a random mix of at least 10 upper and lower case letters, numbers and punctuation. Even with all 94 printable ASCII characters, that’s 94^10 = 5.38615114 × 10^19. Harder to type and not even close
Passphrases are easier to remember, more natural to type and make bruteforcing much harder.

Wow, that was a little deep.   Here is an easy method for creating “passphrases”.

There was a discussion a radio program called Talk of the Nation on NPR and they were interviewing Farhad Manjoo, Slate’s, technology columnist. Farhad described a very clever technique for creating a very secure password. It’s as simple as this; think of a phrase and then use the first letters of the words as your password.  Here is an example they used where the listener used his workplace as a password.  Here is how he used it.  He works  at Plug and Play Technologies in Sunnyvale,” so he uses a password developed from the first letters of the phrase.   It becomes “Iw@p&ptis” What could be simpler? As Farhad points out, “These mnemonic passwords are hard to forget, but they contain no guessable English words.”

Try it with work, home address, family names and see how it works out.

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