Jamie Le Souef

Something that drives me nuts is my wifes passwords. Constantly really simple easy to crack passwords. It makes securing our wireless network also imposable.

Fortunately corvusconsulting.ca has put together a 4 part guide to choosing and remembering a secure password.

Here’s a snippet:

When choosing a word, aim for something between 4 and 6 characters. This gives you a wide range to play within, and allows you to pick a word that is personally memorable. There is a great advantage to choosing a word from a foreign language, in that it’s unlikely to be included in dictionary attacks, a basic tool in any password cracker’s toolkit. Don’t know a word from another language? They’re easy to find, and to base it on a word in your native language you can just translate by using the venerable Babelfish. By the way, I owe credit to Tod Maffin, who clued me into using a foreign word as part of a password.

Read part 4 of the article here (the pate about actually creating the password)

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