Environmental
A long boring sentence beats a tricky password
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The password you hate might be the weak one
Picture two passwords. Which one is harder to crack?
Before / After
Tap to flip between the two passwords.
Tr0ub4dor&3
One is short with symbols. One is four plain words.
Most people pick the tricky one. It looks safe.
Your guess
Which password takes a computer LONGER to guess?
More entropy means more guesses to try.
More guesses means more time to crack it.
entropy
A measure of how many guesses a password could be. More entropy means harder to crack.
The tricky password is also the one you can barely remember.
So the password you hate may be protecting you least.
A short password packed with symbols is the strongest kind.Tap to reveal
It is hard to spot because the symbols look tough to a person. But a computer counts possible guesses, not how messy it reads. A short password has far fewer guesses to try.