{"id":31096,"date":"2018-11-20T14:00:50","date_gmt":"2018-11-20T14:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eudonet.com\/how-to-choose-a-good-and-easy-to-remember-password\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T14:02:47","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T14:02:47","slug":"how-to-choose-a-good-and-easy-to-remember-password","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eudonet.com\/en\/resources\/blog\/how-to-choose-a-good-and-easy-to-remember-password\/","title":{"rendered":"How to choose a good and easy-to-remember password?"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n
\n
\n
\n
An average user behind his screen:\u2013 What was my password again\u2026<\/p>\n

*remembers his first pet*<\/em><\/p>\n

*writes: kitty<\/strong>*<\/p>\n

\u2013 and my date of birth\u2026<\/p>\n

*writes with confidence: kitty84*<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2013 no it\u2019s not that, it needed a capital letter\u2026<\/p>\n

*beginning to lose patience: Frimousse84<\/strong>*<\/p>\n

\u2013 and a special character\u2026<\/p>\n

*Frantically hitting the keys of the keyboard: Kitty$$84<\/strong>*<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2013 another number\u2026<\/p>\n

*writes without any more hope: : Kitty$$842<\/strong><\/em><\/i>*<\/i><\/p>\n

*click on \u00ab\u00a0forgotten password \u00ab\u00a0*.<\/em><\/p>\n

\n
\n

A scene that probably rings a bell.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

As author Randall Munroe writes in his\u00a0 webcomic xkcd<\/span>\u00a0<\/a>:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\n

\"\"<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\n
\n

\u00ab\u00a0AFTER 20 YEARS OF EFFORT, WE HAVE ENCOURAGED EVERYONE TO CHOOSE PASSWORDS THAT ARE HARD FOR HUMANS TO REMEMBER, BUT EASY FOR COMPUTERS TO GUESS.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\n
Because despite appearances, Kitty$$842 (or Tr0ub4dor&3 in the comics) is far from being a safe password.Explications :<\/p>\n

Without going into the complex details of encryption, it will be easy to crack a password whose letters have been changed to numbers or special characters or with reversed letter orders because these are expected behaviors.<\/p>\n

However, it will be difficult for a normal user to remember it.<\/p>\n

So how do you choose a password that is easy to remember and hard to guess?<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/h2>\n

Method 1:<\/h2>\n

Choose 4 random words that you can easily visualize. If we stay with the example of your rabbit Frimousse, take a picture that will be hard to forget:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\n

\"\"<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\n
\n

And make it a password like rabbitrumpcelebrationbalcon.<\/p>\n

To give you an idea, this will be about 65,000 times harder to crack than a password based on a common name with modified characters.<\/p>\n

Well, there will always be the problem of sites that ask you to add a capital letter, a number, a special character\u2026 and you may not want to see Mr. Trump every time you enter a password.<\/p>\n

So let\u2019s try a second trick.<\/p>\n

Method 2:<\/h2>\n

Imagine a sentence that is easy to remember and that is personal to you, for example: \u00ab\u00a0I paid for my first car, a Citro\u00ebn Saxo, 3,000\u20ac\u00a0\u00bb. Let\u2019s transform it by using the first letters of each word and by arranging the text a little: \u00ab\u00a0Jpm1v,1CS,3k\u20ac\u00a0\u00bb And here you are with a secure password, requiring only one sentence to remember.<\/p>\n

If memory is not your strong point, there are still password generation and management software that will make your life easier as we mentioned a previous article<\/span>. In any case, it is essential today to have a password that is impossible to decipher and as far as possible different from one site to another.<\/p>\n

To go further :<\/em><\/p>\n

Is a secure password enough?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Unfortunately not. Other measures should be taken to ensure the security of your data, such as:<\/p>\n