Recently, the use
of strong passwords on the Internet has come to the fore again, in part due to
the multitude of leaks found in recent months. Surely in many cases you have
been told about the importance of a secure and different password for each of
the web services in which you have an account, so we will give you some tips so
that this does not become a real headache.
What is a strong
password?
Before we start
talking about how to remember or store our passwords, it's important to remember
how to make our password as secure as possible. The main advice we are always
reminded of is to use long passwords by combining numbers, symbols and letters,
preferably in upper and lower case. It is also significant that you do not use
personal data, the password with your name and date of birth can be long and
contain letters, numbers and symbols, but this only makes it difficult for a
computer to decipher it based on a test error, and a person who knows that you
could guess.
How do I create a
secure password?
Following the
previous tip, it seems that to create a strong password, we have to type
nonsense on the keyboard until something like this 00% & ”· &
SDFAcachk-r appears.
However, the most
important thing about passwords is that we can remember them. It is useless to
have an incomprehensible password if we cannot use it later when we need it. To
avoid this from being trendy, we have two options: to use a password manager
similar to the ones we will see later. The second option that I use is to
generate passwords from a template. For example, by following these steps:
We develop an
easy-to-remember phrase, a chorus of a song, a quote from a book, etc. For
example, we must always use strong passwords.
We keep the
initials of each word: Eiqsucs
We add a number to
add complexity: Eiqsucs25. This is a good starting point.
To ensure that the
passwords for each service are always different, we can specify the name of the
service or some distinctive element. We will add a symbol between our base and
the last one. For example, we could use
Eiqsucs25_Apple or
Eiqsucs25 @ Apple Bite for Apple Account
Eiqsucs25 and
Twitter or Eiqsucs25 $ PajaroAzul for twitter
If we want to make
our password even more complex, we can, for example, count the number of
characters it has up to this point and add it to the end.
word managers
As we mentioned
earlier, another possibility is to use programs called password managers, which
are basically lists in which they are stored. An example of a LastPass password
generator, the accounts and passwords we have for various services. Most of
them also allow you to generate random passwords without bothering us about anything.
All we need to do is reminisce the master password, which gives us access to
the program.
There are many
password managers nowadays depending on our needs: some store passwords in the
cloud, others are applications for mobile devices or computers. Some even
integrate with apps and can automatically fill in login forms. Of all the
alternatives
The most common
are: LastPass, KeePassfree and with an app for Windows devices (although there
are third-party cross-platform developments) and 1Password for payment,
originally intended for Apple devices, but now has an Android app and a beta
version for Windows.
