Passwords: Easy to Remember and Hard to Crack!

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Daniel May
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Passwords: Easy to Remember, Hard to Crack

Passwords are hard to remember from one system to the next.  GovDelivery’s password standard has five requirements:

1.       Eight characters long
2.      At least one upper case letter
3.      At least one lower case letter
4.      At least one number and/or
5.      At least one special character.

With all those requirements and several different user IDs a great way to remember a password is to use the beginning or last letters from each word in a phrase.  

Examples of good, bad and ugly passwords

Great Examples:

aEw2RmP!
An easy way to remember my password!

If you remember silly things from elementary music class: 
EGbdFi2?
Every good boy does fine…did I learn that in 2nd grade? 

If you are fascinated by comic book heros:
swDWi5s!
Superman would destroy Wolverine in 5 seconds!