How to painlessly remember your passwords

It is known that we as humans struggle with remembering and managing multiple complicated passwords, that are required to access different applications on a daily basis. To comply with the latest cybersecurity requirements for passwords should be at least 8 characters, mix of both upper and lower case letters, at least one number, at least one special character’s (!@#$% etc.).

Furthermore, it is preferable to change our password every 90 days, and of course, don’t write it down, remember it instead. In theory, it sounds obvious to follow, in practice, is a complicated task to deal with.

Looks awfully complicated and certainly difficult to memorize, the problem is that this so complicated for us password is not challenging at all for a computer with today’s GPU calculating power to crack, with approximate 1000 guesses/sec rate it would need about 4 to 5 days.

How adequately protected was our account with such complicated password?

In comparison, if instead is used a simple to remember for us phrase or word combination, for an example: Correct-house-battery-staple-1

Hence, that example satisfies all requirements for creating a secure password to have upper, lower case letters, special character and number and in the same time noticeably effortless to remember the phrase, today’s computer technology will require at least 550 years to crack that password!

So how is that plausible and why we make our lives too difficult by creating passwords that are implausible to memorize yet extremely simple for the computers to crack, instead to create passwords that are straightforward for us to memorize and truly time challenging for the computers to crack?

It is rather a simple process of mathematics that stay behind that are known as password entropy. The randomness of the components of the password is defining it difficult to crack, however different characters, numbers and others have different weight in…

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