{"id":23228,"date":"2022-11-04T01:58:22","date_gmt":"2022-11-04T05:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=23228"},"modified":"2022-11-04T02:01:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-04T06:01:00","slug":"how-i-choose-passwords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=23228","title":{"rendered":"How I choose passwords"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>pick a song or phrase with ~12 words.  something burned into your memory  e.g. &#8220;The Rain In Spain Falls Mainly On The Plain&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>take the first letter of each word: TRISFMOTP, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>first &amp; last uppercase, the rest lower case: TrisfmotP (or first couple UC then rest lc): TRisfmotp<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>append a punctuation char + the name of the website, or a ~6 chars shortform: TRisfmotp$google<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>append another, even same, punctuation char + 3-digit # you like: TRisfotp$google#615<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>you now have an 19-char password with both upper &amp; lower case alpahs, 3 numerics, and 2 punctuations.  this is a very strong password and should satisfy the vast majority of sites.  matter of fasct i&#8217;d argue a website that won&#8217;t acceptjh this password format is a bad wesbite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/2022-11-04-01_58_52-How-Secure-Is-My-Password_-_-Password-Strength-Checker.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"806\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/2022-11-04-01_58_52-How-Secure-Is-My-Password_-_-Password-Strength-Checker-1024x806.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/2022-11-04-01_58_52-How-Secure-Is-My-Password_-_-Password-Strength-Checker-1024x806.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/2022-11-04-01_58_52-How-Secure-Is-My-Password_-_-Password-Strength-Checker-300x236.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/2022-11-04-01_58_52-How-Secure-Is-My-Password_-_-Password-Strength-Checker-768x604.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/2022-11-04-01_58_52-How-Secure-Is-My-Password_-_-Password-Strength-Checker-1536x1209.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/2022-11-04-01_58_52-How-Secure-Is-My-Password_-_-Password-Strength-Checker-750x590.jpg 750w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/2022-11-04-01_58_52-How-Secure-Is-My-Password_-_-Password-Strength-Checker-1226x965.jpg 1226w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/2022-11-04-01_58_52-How-Secure-Is-My-Password_-_-Password-Strength-Checker-675x531.jpg 675w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/2022-11-04-01_58_52-How-Secure-Is-My-Password_-_-Password-Strength-Checker.jpg 1611w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>pick a song or phrase with ~12 words. something burned into your&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[468,70,46,919,920],"class_list":["post-23228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-explainer","tag-hacking","tag-it-security","tag-mine","tag-raw","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}