HOW TO MAKE A SECURE PASSWORD

A secure password that is still easy to remember? Yes, it is possible! We give you important tips for secure passwords for your book of oz slot review.

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1. a secure password is a long password

Hackers use tools that automatically try all combinations of characters and can thus crack passwords.

The fewer characters a password has, the fewer possible character combinations there are. This makes it more likely that the hacking tool will “guess” the password.

Therefore, a secure password is a long password. The German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) recommends at least eight characters with four character types (upper and lower case letters, special characters, numbers). For encryption methods such as WPA2 and WPA3 for WLAN, it should even be at least 20 characters.

These are minimum recommendations: The longer, the better. So it can’t hurt to choose a secure password with 15 or more characters even for normal accounts.

2. a secure password has numbers and special characters

A secure password should be long and complex.

Only the length does not make a secure password: The password “AAAAAAAAAAA” consists of fifteen characters, but it is not secure at all. This also applies to simple words such as “guitar player” or “airplane pilot”.

A secure password should contain upper and lower case letters as well as numbers and special characters. For most services, you can use all the characters on the keyboard, such as “%&=!)”. In some cases, however, certain special characters are not permitted.

The BSI advises against simply adding a special character to the beginning or end of an otherwise simple password: “cake%” or “?playground” are therefore not secure passwords.

Instead, you should integrate the special characters between the letters or words, for example “?KucH()en!” or “sp(ieL?plA§tZ”.

Umlauts (ä,ü,ö) can be a problem when you are abroad: In many countries these letters are not available on the keyboard. Therefore you should avoid these special characters. This also applies to currency symbols.

3. remember complicated password: Three clever methods

A password like “/HzsN31#MuuJl+qAnm()n” is secure, but difficult to remember. But with various tricks, you can come up with long, complex passwords that are still easy to remember. The BSI recommends the following three methods:

• Choose a simple sentence with at least one number, for example, “For breakfast I eat two buns and a banana.” Then take the first letter of each word and replace the number word with the number: “ZFei2B+eB”. You can also replace the “and” or other words with a special character. Of course, you can also use the second, third or last letter of the word.
• Use a whole sentence connected by different special characters, for example: “I%like%to+ride%the!bike$to+work”.
• Choose five or six random words from the dictionary and connect them with a space (or another special character), for example: “soccer drink mountain female green run”. It is important that the words are not connected or make a whole sentence.