| How to Pick a Secure Password |
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| Written by Mike Seidle | |
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One of the most common questions VPS gets from our users is: "How do I make a password secure?" Despite the last 10 years of groupthink, it isn't making a password like this: aw3s0ME! Expert cryptographers and security researchers have recently discovered that it is much better to have a longer password like: pythonbrakefishticket If you want to make your password difficult for dictionary based cracking tools, mix in capital letters and a punctuation mark or two:
XKCD (one of my all time favorite web cartoons) explains it best:
Mike Seidle is the Chief Technology Officer for VPS and has over 20 years of security, system administration and software development experience.
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