title: Smart passwords link: https://onemoretech.wordpress.com/2010/12/18/smart-passwords/ author: lembobro description: post_id: 100 created: 2010/12/18 02:40:38 created_gmt: 2010/12/18 02:40:38 comment_status: open post_name: smart-passwords status: publish post_type: post

Smart passwords

Michael Horowitz has a nice article entitled A formula approach to generating passwords. His method is brilliant for its simplicity, combining the passphrase system popular with many security professionals with a twist that ensures a degree of uniqueness for each site a user might have an account on.

Start with a phrase that you can easily remember. For example

The Phillies will win the World Series in 2011

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Simple concatenation can then yield an unlimited number of passwords from this secret clump of seemingly random characters.

For example, a Gmail password might be “gmailTPwwtWSi2011” and a New York Times password might be “nytTPwwtWSi2011”.

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