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Whether or not you have a strong password depends on several factors. Here we will take a look at two of the most important factors in password cracking. They are also the ones that you have the most control over. An in depth look at these two methods used to stop easy password recovery will help you a great deal with your password habits. Here they are:
- Have you taken the necessary steps to deter information thieves and easy password recovery applications? This is the human factor that you have the most control over when ensuring that your passwords are secure.
- The second major ingredient of a strong password is the application you are using. Does it have a well known and secure password manager? Do they use modern password management techniques? If you can’t answer these questions, you need to read on.
Qualities of a strong password
If your password has most of the following qualities it would be considered a strong password:
- A lot of times a passwords strength is measured solely by length. Although length is not the only factor by far, it is an important one.
- If you used words in your password, the words should be a phrase that only you know. Individual letters in the words need to be separated with other characters that you have memorized one short example would be to use “c8a8t8s8“ in place of “cats“. Of course it would be longer than that to be considered strong enough.
- Responsible password management involves using as many different types of characters as allowed. Try to use uppercase letters, lowercase letters, numbers and even symbols if the application allows them.
- Common words or other character combinations should not be used. Don’t use “God”, your birth date, “password“, “qwerty”, “123456” or other common strings.
- Store your password in a safe place. Lost password recovery is never fun, so you should keep your passwords written down in a safe place(only when you can‘t remember them). A password manager is a good choice for password management. With a password manager, you only have to remember one password while it securely saves all the others for you.
Those are all prime examples of how the user factors in determining a password’s strength. To make sure your password is truly strong, the other half of the matter rests in the reliability of the application you are using that is saving the password. Here are some characteristics an application should have in order to have secure password management:
- The application should do encryption with a secure, professional encryption algorithm.
- The password should never be stored in the document that is being protected.
- The application should use a user chosen password for the encryption key to protect against easy password recovery.
- The document that is protected against password cracking should not be usable if the correct password is not given. It shall be useless until the password is given.
Keeping good password habits is important and will keep you from ever having to deal with Word password recovery, Office password recovery or lost password recovery of any kind. Easy password recovery tools are abundant, but you need to know and trust the ones you use. Only use well known or proven applications basing your opinion on professionals’ reviews and recommendations, which may be easily found on big trustful resources.
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