“O@R-V-Mmbctta!+1#” might be a secure password. It contains upper and lower case letters. It contains special characters (@!-+#). It contains a number. But how on earth shall I remember this?

Quite easily :)

The trick is to generate these passwords in a way that makes it easy. Let's see how I made up this string of characters:

You can read it everytime you drive you car. So, let's take the first letters of each word: “Oitr-v-mmbctta!”. Let's add some german capitalization. Nouns are capitalized: “Rear-View-Mirror”. Also, let's exchange the 'in the' with the slightly inaccurate ”@”. All that is missing is a number. So, let's add a number: ”+1#”.

And if we add all this together, we have a beatiful password: Tough to crack, easy to remember. “O@R-V-Mmbctta!+1#”

The more of the following points are true for a password, the more secure it is:

• Contains upper and lower case letters
• Contains special characters and punctuation
• Contains numbers
• NOT consisting of words found in a dictionary
• NO birthdays, names, towns, …

—- Created by stwaidele