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Creating Memorable Passwords


Phrases Compund Words Dissociated Words
Vanity Plates Keyboard Patterns Keyboard Enigma

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Phrases    Back to Top

Use your favorite quote or phrase to make your password.

Phrase

Password Example

Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.

Gmc&c,bny

Facts are the enemy of truth.

Fax=NME0truth

 

Compound Words    Back to Top

Altering compound words is quite easy.

Compound Word

Password Example

Rocketship

Rockit$hip7

Bulldog

Bul!dawg1

Newsstand      

NoosSt&

 

Dissociated Words    Back to Top

Try making two totally unrelated words into one.

Word 1

Word 2

Password Example

clock

pencil

Clock*Pencil+

face

shoe

fACe#sHOe!

tennis

maple

10nis%maypl

 

Vanity Plates    Back to Top

Everybody has seen those funny vanity plates, take a look at these.

Phrase

Password Example

Born to be late

Brn2bL8

Corvallis-Gazette Times

Crvls-Gz8*

Land ‘o’ Beavers

Lnd’0’Bvrs

 

Keyboard Patterns    Back to Top

Try using keyboard patterns, they don’t make any sense but they are easy to type.

You choose the starting point.

Pattern

Password Example

Right diagonal from “G”

Gy7bhu8

As above with alternate case

Gy&bHu*

Triangle starting with “B”

Bhu8ik,mn

 

Keyboard "Enigma"    Back to Top

This is key substitution. For each letter in the phrase, substitute another key offset from the original.

Review these examples to see how this works.

Originally Typed Word

Password Example

Abe Lincoln

Qg3O8hd9oh

Easy Password

#qw6_weE305r

NathanP

^zgnz6: or Y1b61y?

 

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