Tips to make a strong password

Sentence to password

1. Pick a sentence
   It can be a sentence from a song - preferably not in English, a poem, an adage, etc… preferably with punctuation, numbers, … Try to pick something meaningfull for you, but not too famous (unlike my example!).

Vous chantiez ? J’en suis fort aise. Eh bien ! Dansez maintenant.

1. Take 1st letters, keep punctuation

   Vc?J’esfa.Eb!Dm.

2. Modify some characters (for instance E -> €, a -> @, l -> 1, o -> 0, etc…)

   Vc?J’esf@.€b!Dm.

Be creative! If you think a bit out of the box, your password will be almost impossible to crack. Using a password manager, you only need to remember ONE password, so it can be relatively complex.

Passphrase

You can do something similar starting from random words.

1. Pick randomly 5 (or more) words in a dictionnary - preferably not in English

   valide secoué porte cette voir

2. Add punctuation and capital letters

   Valide(secoué_porte)cette!voiR

3. Modify some characters (for instance E -> €, a -> @, l -> 1, o -> 0, etc…)

   V@l1de(secoué_p0rte)cette!vo1R

You can also find online many other tips (for instance here).

Author : Magali Hennion
Last update : 03/11/2023