l33t 4 passwords

[Ethan Hunt]

I started practicing this a while back, and I'm not saying it's something unheard of, but I thought I state it here just so maybe someone else thinks it's a good idea and starts doing it. USE LEET SPEAK FOR MAKING UP PASSWORDS. I know that everyone today suggests passphrases as a more secure option, but just in case you want a one word password you should use leet to write it. For example even choosing a password like: "password" and writing it as "p455w0rd" instead, makes it more secure. Think about it :D

[deleted]

would make it harder for keyboard surfers.

[natural_orange]

Actually its safer to use random numbers in letter.

Someone one could do a 1337 sp3@k dictionary attack if they wanted to.

Just use things like random serial and model numbers from stuff you don't do use anymore. (i.e. not they model number of your monitor)

[cooper]

Old license plate numbers, former zip codes, your employee ID at a previous job....

Be creative, combine, and keep it personal. A combination of things that relate only to you.

[Razor512]

if you want secure, use these.  these passwords are really hard to brute force  as it will take  hundreds of years

so%:vW`t,B],XiJ$:qw:zzlG4rWACr{BXLf,3i14[0]p-W%D&i/@^lY2!hx~>}

https://www.grc.com/passwords.htm

a new pseudo-random password every time you load the page

[metatron]

Just memorize this if you haven't already, http://www.asciitable.com/, then just assign a value to each letter and it makes it easy to remember but harder to work out.

[unasoto]

I use my Dads Aramco ID number for some stuff and my friends old phone # as a word.

[Ethan Hunt]

Someone one could do a 1337 sp3@k dictionary attack if they wanted to.

Hey some1 could use a dictionary attack anyway :D Mind as well make it harder and more time consuming :)

[SomeoneE1se]

Just memorize this if you haven't already, http://www.asciitable.com/, then just assign a value to each letter and it makes it easy to remember but harder to work out.

I was just about to suggest this

at school everyone kept trying to 'hack' my password by watching me enter it so I stared using alt + the number-pad it's a lot harder to remember 30-40 numbers and a 8-20 char password (when you get as fast as I was...) but alas I only knew my passwords and hove since lost the skill

[eki]

actually i once cracked one of my old passwords that was a "l33t pass" hmm..?!  it took like 5 sec. to crack it ..

what i'm doing now is using keepass -> http://keepass.info/

which works on linux and windows it's a kind of pw generator/manager that gives you passwords like : ,InduzajR}["-6>yf2H3(Q(E=Fr?K 

or better -  the programm generates a database  *.kdb file that i encrypt with truecrypt as a word file container  .

i think it must be pretty sure

:)

[VaKo]

Like the grc one, I use this: http://www.pctools.com/guides/password/