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	<title>Security Blog &#187; Password Strengh</title>
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		<title>How strong is your password?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 14:39:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michel Curti Rozatti</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Security Tips]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Password Strengh]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a world where you have accounts for everything, it gets difficult to create good and easy to remember passwords. Get some tips here on how to do it.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>People usually don&#8217;t give much importance to password strength. We must remember that the strength of a security architecture is equal to its weakest link. So it doesn&#8217;t matter if you have a strong cryptography algorithm applied to your data if you use a weak password for your key that can be quickly broken by guessing, or using a <a title="brute force attack" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brute_force_attack" target="_blank">brute force</a> or <a title="dictionary attack" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictionary_attack" target="_blank">dictionary</a> attack.</p>
<p>A strong password is formed by at least 8 of the most random sequence of letters (uppercase and lowercase), numbers and special characters possible. So we can tell that 3k!0H9w# is a strong password. The problem is, in a world where we have passwords for almost everything, how can we remember this kind of character sequence?</p>
<p>There are  some techniques that might help you obtain a strong password and still make it easy to remember. A common one is to switch letters with visually similar numbers or symbols, something like &#8220;P0c4h0nt4$&#8221; (Pocahontas). To make it better try to not use single words, but small phrases like &#8220;!l1k3P0c4h0nt4$&#8221; (IlikePocahontas).</p>
<p>If you still think that this is hard, try at least repeating characters in a word, avoiding a basic dictionary attack. For example, &#8220;anacondda&#8221;.</p>
<p>People tend to use common words for passwords. You can find a lot of <a href="http://www.whatsmypass.com/the-top-500-worst-passwords-of-all-time">lists on the internet</a>. Check then and if your password is there, I recommend you change it immediately.</p>
<p>A free and very good tool called <a href="http://keepass.info/">Keepass </a>can help you to safe store all your passwords. The app database is encrypted, and you will need only to remember a master password (keep this one strong) to access all the other ones.</p>
<p>Be safe!</p>
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