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Remember your passwords easily

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Systems Security
Rubén Infante Docio
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Rubén Infante Docio
Software engineer
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Lately we have seen how the media echoed Snowden’s recommendations to have a secure password. In this post we will see how to secure your passwords even more.

Here is this fragment of the interview subtitled.

Snowden’s recommendations
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Adding security
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However, the former CIA employee did not comment that the right thing to do is to have a password for each service. As we know, there are large leaks of information with hundreds of thousands of passwords. These passwords are obtained by hacking servers or spreading viruses between PCs.

In any case, if we use a password for everything, if a password is stolen, a malicious user could access all our private information.

Therefore, the question to be solved is: How can we have a different password for each service without losing our minds?

I’m going to tell you a couple of tricks.

1. Use leet.

Leet speak or leet ( 1337 5p34k or 1337 in the script leet) is a type of writing composed of alphanumeric characters, it is used by some communities and users of different internet media. This script is characterized by writing alphanumeric characters. The term “leet”, pronounced lit, comes from elite.

We can convert our password to this type of writing in several ways

Let’s imagine for a moment that we have a password like “ExamplePassword”

The result could be “€xam|*le|>$4$VVord”

2. Add part of the service name to your password. For any service like Google. The resulting password could be

GO + €xam|*le|>4$$VVord+ LE

3. Complicating it a little more. We can turn those two initial and final letters over. And also put the last two in lowercase. The resulting password could be

OG + €xam|*le|>$4$VVord + the

4. Add one letter per site category. Informatica -> I Sports -> D News -> N Let’s imagine that the website where we are going to register is news The resulting password could be

NOG + €xam|*le|>$4$VVord + the

With these two simple methods, we will obtain several advantages.

  1. We will increase the length
  2. We will have an easy way to enter symbols in our password and it will still be easily remembered.
  3. If they hack our password for a service, they will not be able to access the rest of the services in which we have an account.

In this way, if the passwords of a certain service are leaked, the unauthorized user will only be able to access the data stored in that service.

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