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Creating A Strong Password

How strong is your password?

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Building a strong password is all about length and mixing it up with letters, numbers, special characters. Having a strong password will save you from the headache of getting hacked.

First let’s see how strong your password is

Take a look at howsecureismypassword.net to see if your existing password is strong. You may not need to read the rest of this because you’re ahead of the game if your password is strong.

Weak to Strong

Let’s take a look at how we can make a weak password into a strong password:

Note Password How fast it will be cracked
starting password monkey instantly
add some numbers monkey123 42 minutes
add a capital letter Monkey123 4 days
add some symbols !!Monkey123 400 years
more cowbell symbols !!Monkey123!! 4 Billion years
add another word !!Monkey123!!Love 93 Trillion years

I have a strong password

Great!!! Now you know how to create a strong password and it’s time to look at a Password Manager so you only have to create 1 strong password instead of hundreds of them. See my blog post on Password Managers .

TLDR; Use numbers, letters, symbols and make it over 16 characters long

Please don’t use monkey as your password, it’s one of the most common passwords out there right next to password and 123456

Thanks

As always I’m always looking to improve this so if I missed something major let me know and I’ll add it. Email me at info@adigitaldad.com to get in touch.