We all take this for granted mostly. You know the drill, usually use the one reliable password that is easy to remember yet difficult to discover. Use some others just to mix things up a bit.
Well, these days of high security beg to have you use a password that is virtually undetectable. It just makes you shudder to know that someone out there could crack your password(s) and run rampant throughout your website, your bank account, email, etc. We’ve all read the stories of even large companies that had their databases cracked and valuable information stolen.
Take a gander at this site David Finch’s Hobby Programming Projects because he has a strong password solution that seems to do the trick. The page I’m referring to is called The Strong Password Generator.
You can specify password length, number of generated passwords, password format or strength, and any additional entropy that you might require. Then with the press of the mouse button…you have your strong passwords generated for your use.
I’ve been using them for a while now just for peace of mind and to get myself out of the habit of using something that I felt comfortable with and could remember easily. Thank God for Firefox’s password remembering abilities or I’d be screwed. Of course, writing them all down would work too but that presents yet another dilemma if they’re discovered.
The fact that we need to have strong passwords these days is continually brought up almost every day in stories we read or hear about on the news. So give David Finch’s page a try if you already don’t have a strong password generator for your security. You won’t regret it.