How to select a good password of WinRAR?
by Sophi On April 7, 2009 | PDA & Mobile | Hits: 27
Software you need: WinRAR
The objective when choosing a password is to make it as difficult as possiblefor a cracker to make educated guesses about what you've chosen.This leaves them no alternative but a brute-force search, trying every
possible combination of letters, numbers, and punctuation.
What Not to Use:
* Don't use your login name in any form (as-is, reversed, capitalized,doubled, etc.).
* Don't use your first or last name in any form.
* Don't use use your spouse's or child's name.
* Don't use other information easily obtained about you.
This includes license plate numbers, telephone numbers,social security numbers, the brand of your automobile,the name of the street you live on, etc.
* Don't use a password of all digits, or all the same letter.
* Don't use a word contained in (English or foreign language)dictionaries, spelling lists, or other lists of words.
* Don't use a password shorter than six characters.
What to Use
* Do use a password with mixed-case alphabetic characters.
* Do use a password with nonalphabetic characters, e.g., digits or punctuation.
* Do use a password that is easy to remember, so you don't have to write it down.
* Do use a password that you can type quickly, without having to look at the keyboard. This makes it harder for someone to steal your password by watching over your shoulder.
Method to Choose Secure and Easy to Remember Passwords:
*Choose a line or two from a song or poem, and use the first letter of each word.
*Alternate between one consonant and one or two vowels, up to eight characters.This provides nonsense words that are usually pronounceable, and thus easily remembered. Examples include "routboo," "quadpop," and so on.
The objective when choosing a password is to make it as difficult as possiblefor a cracker to make educated guesses about what you've chosen.This leaves them no alternative but a brute-force search, trying every
possible combination of letters, numbers, and punctuation.
What Not to Use:
* Don't use your login name in any form (as-is, reversed, capitalized,doubled, etc.).
* Don't use your first or last name in any form.
* Don't use use your spouse's or child's name.
* Don't use other information easily obtained about you.
This includes license plate numbers, telephone numbers,social security numbers, the brand of your automobile,the name of the street you live on, etc.
* Don't use a password of all digits, or all the same letter.
* Don't use a word contained in (English or foreign language)dictionaries, spelling lists, or other lists of words.
* Don't use a password shorter than six characters.
What to Use
* Do use a password with mixed-case alphabetic characters.
* Do use a password with nonalphabetic characters, e.g., digits or punctuation.
* Do use a password that is easy to remember, so you don't have to write it down.
* Do use a password that you can type quickly, without having to look at the keyboard. This makes it harder for someone to steal your password by watching over your shoulder.
Method to Choose Secure and Easy to Remember Passwords:
*Choose a line or two from a song or poem, and use the first letter of each word.
*Alternate between one consonant and one or two vowels, up to eight characters.This provides nonsense words that are usually pronounceable, and thus easily remembered. Examples include "routboo," "quadpop," and so on.
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