A strong password is defined as any password which meets the following criteria:
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- At least fifteen (15) characters in length.
- Does not contain your user name, real name, organization name, family member's names or names of your pets.
- Does not contain your birth date.
- Does not contain a complete dictionary word.
- Is significantly different from your previous password.
- Should contain three (3) of the following character types.
- Lowercase Alphabetical (a, b, c, etc.)
- Uppercase Alphabetical (A, B, C, etc.)
- Numerics (0, 1, 2, etc.)
- Special Characters (@, %, !, etc.)
Examples
Good Passwords (but don't use these, make your own!)- Mhtiasp! Based on “My home town is a small place!”
- Mh714sp! Based on “My home 7own 1s 4 small place!”
- .-Mcismf--. Based on “.-Morse code is so much fun --.”
- 2Tamlamt Based on line 2 of Shakespeare’s Sonnet #18 “Thou art more lovely and more temperate”
- mypasswo - Obviously plain-text based (“mypassword”)
- kathy5 - Name-based
- ........ - Repeating sequence
- abcabc - Repeating sequence
- dr1v3way - Word-based with common letter/number substitution
- gandalf1 - Based on the name of a character from The Hobbit
- triskeli - Based on a word from Star Trek (“triskelion”)
- ykmfptd! - Based on a quote from the movie Princess Bride: “My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die!”
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