Password Suggestions: Hate Creating & Remembering Passwords? Here's The Trick For Strong & Easy To Recall Codes

Password Suggestions: With login id and passcode being required for every other online portal, the act of creating, changing and remembering passwords which are strong at the same time can be a mentally exasperating task. Here we try to simplify this task for you.

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Password Suggestions: The world is changing rapidly and almost everything now has an online avatar. Though the digitization of everything is aimed at making things hassle-free and to save people the effort of physically visiting places and standing in queues to get things done, it, however, has given us an additional responsibility of cyber security. With login id and code being required for every other online portal, creating, changing and remembering passwords which are strong can be a mentally exasperating task. Here we try to simplify this task for you: Trick 1: One of the tricks to create a strong password is to think of a phrase that is close to you and then using its acronym as the password. This not only helps you create a strong password but is also something that you wont forget. For example: “Sachin Tendulkar is my favourite cricketer”. You can use the first letters of each of the words in the sentence order: STimfc. Now remember to couple this with some numeric to make the code undecipherable. Tendulkar’s Jersey number was 10. So you can add 10 to the code. Also since a special character would make the passcode stronger, you can use $ instead of the S. So the code now becomes: $Timfc10 TRICK 2: Use passwords customized for specific sites. For example think of a common element and use that by just changing site-specific element. For example for an Amazon password you can use the phrase ‘Trying to log into Amazon with password’. You can now use try to incorporate numbers in this and decide to use certain characters for the site name. Let us take first four characters of Amazon, which gives us Amaz. To make it more complex to decode we can take @ instead of a. Let’s use acronyms and try to insert numbers where we can. Trying: T To: 2 log: l into: in2 Amazon: Am@z with: w Password: pw The code that you get now is T2lin2Am@zwpw The same formula can be used for Facebook. Applying this formula we get: T2lin2F@cewpw Trick 3: Make patterns on your keyboard. You can imagine patterns on your keyboard and use that as an extension to your main codeword. For example you want to create a password for a site that starts with W. You have thought of the word Security as a code for it. So your password can be Security. 1qazdrfvgy7. (1qazdrfvgy7 makes a W on the keyboard if you run your fingers on these). (Note: The above passwords have been cited just an examples. Please do not use the same. You passwords must be unique and secret.)