What is an awesome password?

Answer 1

A normal password is a word of six to eight letters. Some sites require a number in the password. Regardless, they're easy to crack. While most people use such passwords, in comparison to a house, they're no more secure than locking your home but forgetting to lock all the windows.

A better password will be a random setting of capital and lower case letters mixed with numbers and characters on the keyboard. This should be no less than eight letters/numbers/characters long making it much harder to crack. However, a password cracking program will still be able to break it, but the longer the password, the more time it will take. DO NOT USE RECOGNIZED WORDS, BIRTHDAYS, ETC... In comparison with the above house example, this would be like locking all your doors and windows, turning on your home alarm system, and keeping a hungry and mean dog inside.

The best method for making a password is to use the random capital and lower case letters mentioned above in addition to adding special characters. These characters cannot be found located on your keyboard, so they must be created. This requires a keyboard with a number pad attached, as the numbers across the top of the keyboard will not work. To make special characters, you press and hold down the ALT key plus a series of three numbers on the number pad (AGAIN, YOU MUST USE THE NUMBER PAD). Man of these characters you can create CAN NOT be cracked by any password cracking program, making your password not only uncrackable, but one that would be virtually impossible to guess. These passwords do not need to be as long as many of the characters that can be made in this manner simply cannot be cracked, period. Keep in mind though, longer is always better. Using the house example as before, this would be like locking up your solid steel doors and impact proof windows, setting your alarm, and paying the Navy's SEAL Team Six to guard your house until you got back.

I have a list of which characters are uncrackable. I learned how to do this while working in Information Warfare while in the United States Navy. Using this method, you can create passwords the government can not break.