{"id":657,"date":"2015-12-03T20:26:28","date_gmt":"2015-12-04T03:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whonami.com\/domain-registration-tips\/?p=657"},"modified":"2015-12-03T20:26:28","modified_gmt":"2015-12-04T03:26:28","slug":"whonami-email-create-strong-passwords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whonami.com\/domain-registration-tips\/2015\/12\/03\/whonami-email-create-strong-passwords\/","title":{"rendered":"Whonami-Email: Create Strong Passwords"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Email: Create Strong Passwords<\/p>\n<p>A password is your first and last line of defense in computer security. Typically people choose bad passwords because they are easy to remember. However, you wouldn&#8217;t leave the door to your home unlocked because it is too much of a hassle to unlock it before you open the door, would you? A weak password is the same thing.<\/p>\n<p>Using words that appear in a dictionary, in any language, make cracking your password that much easier. Adding numbers to dictionary words doesn&#8217;t increase the password&#8217;s strength at all if it is based on a dictionary word. Even with character replacements like capital letters and non-alphanumeric symbols, you&#8217;re not getting a stronger password.<\/p>\n<p>A true strong password should consist of 8 or more characters and be part of a &#8220;passphrase&#8221;. A passphrase consists of a phrase that has special meaning to you, therefore making it easier to remember. For example:<\/p>\n<p>Mickey Mouse for President. It would be awesome!<\/p>\n<p>One simple approach to create a better password is to take the first letter of each word in your passphrase, giving you:<\/p>\n<p><strong>mmfpiwba<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That looks seemingly random, and it&#8217;s a fairly hard password to crack. But why not make it harder by using the punctuation from the sentence?<\/p>\n<p><strong>mmfp.iwba!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Now that is a much harder password to crack. Why stop there, though? Let&#8217;s make it even stronger by capitalizing some letters and adding numbers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MM4P.Iwba!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Now you have truly difficult password to crack; but is still fairly easy to remember. To make it even stronger, you can salt it with non-alphanumeric character replacements for greater difficulty. For example, replacing an &#8220;a&#8221; with a &#8220;@&#8221; leaving you with:<\/p>\n<p><strong>MM4P.Iwb@!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"note\">Our shared hosting accounts do not allow the following symbols to be used in the password (second symbol is a space):<\/p>\n<p>? ^'&#8221;:\\&amp;&gt;&lt;~;`*)(_-=+|[]{}.,\/<\/p>\n<p>The following symbols are acceptable:<\/p>\n<p>!@#%$<\/p>\n<h4>Do&#8217;s and Do Not&#8217;s of Password Security:<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Do:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Combine letters, symbols, and numbers that are easy for you to remember and hard for someone else to guess.<\/li>\n<li>Create pronounceable passwords (even if they are not words) that are easier to remember, reducing the temptation to write down your password.<\/li>\n<li>Try using the initial letters of a phrase you love, especially if a number or special character is included.<\/li>\n<li>Take two familiar things, and then wrap them around a number or special character. Alternatively, change the spelling to include a special character.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Do not:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Use personal information such as derivatives of your user ID, names of family members, maiden names, cars, license plates, telephone numbers, pets, birthdays, social security numbers, addresses, or hobbies.<\/li>\n<li>Use any word in any language spelled forward or backward.<\/li>\n<li>Tie passwords to the month. For example, don&#8217;t use &#8220;Mayday&#8221; in May.<\/li>\n<li>Create new passwords that are substantially similar to ones you&#8217;ve previously used.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>==============================================================================<\/p>\n<p>We offer <strong>.com<\/strong>$8.99 <strong>.net<\/strong>$10.99<strong> .info<\/strong>$4.99 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whonami.com\/\">cheap domain registration<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whonami.com\/\">cheap domains<\/a>. Let\u2019s register from www.whonami.com today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Email: Create Strong Passwords A password is your first and last line of defense in computer security. Typically people choose bad passwords because they are easy to remember. However, you wouldn&#8217;t leave the door to your home unlocked because it is too much of a hassle to unlock it before you open the door, would &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whonami.com\/domain-registration-tips\/2015\/12\/03\/whonami-email-create-strong-passwords\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Whonami-Email: Create Strong Passwords&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[548,549],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whonami.com\/domain-registration-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whonami.com\/domain-registration-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whonami.com\/domain-registration-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whonami.com\/domain-registration-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whonami.com\/domain-registration-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.whonami.com\/domain-registration-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":658,"href":"https:\/\/www.whonami.com\/domain-registration-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions\/658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whonami.com\/domain-registration-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whonami.com\/domain-registration-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whonami.com\/domain-registration-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}