Password guidelines for 2020 and beyond
New password guidelines for the digital-age heavily rely on two principles.
- Password Length
- Memorising your password
The last 30 years of enterprise level computing has taught us a few lessons. The most important lesson to take home is that we're really bad at making passwords.
New Password Guidelines
Ok, so back to the two principles, password length, password memorability. This can be done easily by changing the concept of a password to a passphrase.
What is a Passphrase?I'm glad you asked, it's a string of words put together in a way that you can remember. being a phrase, it's long, uses a hiphen to join words together (adding some special charcter magic) and is very memorable.
Example "the-dog-will-hunt"That puppy right there is really easy to remember and has a whopping the age-of-the-universe amount of combinations due to that 17 letter string, nice right? So this Site will allow you to generate a pass-phrase that will hopefully be memorable for you. See the next section on how to use this site