If you
really cannot remember a password that meets the recommended security criteria,
you can surely retain a method to generate it. In this way, you will create a
"couple" made up of a method that you will not give to anyone and a key phrase
that you will also keep to yourself and which can in turn have a low level of
security (poem, word of song etc ...). The combination of the method and the key
phrase will allow you to find your password. Here is an example method. It is
not very difficult to invent your own and keep it to yourself.
The key
phrase method:
The key phrase: Choose a proverb, a saying, a movie or
book title that is long enough and use this phrase as the key to generate the
password. This is deduced from the key phrase by a method of your choice, of
which here is an example: keep only the first letters of each word forming the
code phrase, and mix the letters obtained with the number of characters forming
each word. Illustration: the key phrase is "La vie en rose". The first letters
of each word are Lver (respect capital letters!), And the four words are made up
of 2, 3, 2 and 4 letters respectively. The chosen password is "Lver2324".
Another convention would give preference to letter / number alternation and
provide "L2v3e2r4". This method has the advantage of generating pseudo-random
passwords, which are a "compression" of a key phrase that is difficult to find
in its entirety in order to discover the password.
If this method does
not generate a password at the maximum level of security it is anyway better
than a very secure password written on a piece of paper or a diary. In addition,
this method makes it possible to generate long passwords making it possible to
take advantage of the security of algorithms that do not have a length
limitation without risk of data loss due to forgetting a
password.
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