How to make an uncrackable password

Making an uncrackable password is much easier than you think.
Not only can you make one that is uncrackable, but also easily rememberable.
Even a child can create and remember an uncrackable password.

First, the 4 rules to an uncrackable password...

• The password must have between 8 and 12 characters.
• The password must have at least 1 capital letter.
• The password must have at least 1 number.
• The password must have at least 1 of the following symbols:
  dash, period, or underscore.

So how am I going to appease all those rules and still have an easily rememberable password?

Here is the process:

• Think of a song or poem or group of people that means something to you. (Examples below)
• Take the first letter of each word.
• Capitallize any letter that would normally be capitalized, or just capitalize the first letter.
• Pick a number that has meaning to you, maybe your birthday? Anniversary? Last 2 of your Social Security Number? Phone Number? Graduation?
• Seperate all the letters and the number with one of the symbols.

Example #1 - Poem
There is this old poem that has been in our family for generations that starts "Two lonesome skunks by the roadside sat".
If I took the first letter of each of those words it would make:
Tlsbtrs
Then I would take the year of my birth which was 1977 and add that to the end, seperated by a period.
Tlsbtrs.1977
AND VIOLA, A 12 CHARACTER UNCRACKABLE AND EASILY REMEMBERABLE PASSWORD!

Example #2 - Song
I had an old girlfried that I almost married, and she even picked our wedding song "I can't help falling in love with you" by Elvis Presley.
If I took the first letter of each of those words it would make:
Ichfilwy
I graduated from High School in 1995, so I'd use 95 at the beginning seperated by a dash:
95-Ichfilwy
AND VIOLA, AN 11 CHARACTER UNCRACKABLE AND EASILY REMEMBERABLE PASSWORD!

Example #3 - People
My name is Mark and I am married to Amy. If we had 4 kids name Bill, Jack, Mary and Sam, I could list our entire family's first letters like so:
MAbjms
We were married in 1999, which I will place after me and Amy and seperate it from our kids by an underscore.
MA99_bjms
AND VIOLA, A 9 CHARACTER UNCRACKABLE AND EASILY REMEMBERABLE PASSWORD!

There are 3 GIANT advantages to having passwords like this:

1. Writing down your passwords.
   Lets say I use the bottom 2 passwords for varying websites. I can safely write down, even on a public blog, what passwords I use for which websites. I could write that my password for gmail.com is the MA password. There is not a person on this planet that is gonna have any idea what that means. I could write that my banking password is the 95 password. If anyone happens to see that, they wont have a clue what I'm talking about. You don't neccesarilly have to use the first 2 characters either, the MA password could just as easily be the 99 password. So even if you write them all down like that, no one will have any power over you even if they find your written notes. The secret is to never write down the actual password and never tell anyone your pattern.



2. Sharing passwords.
   My wife and I share alot of online logins, such as our banking login, ebay, kids school website, credit card, etc. If you handle your passwords as I just stated above, you can remind your spouse which password to use, even across a room full of people.
   Amy yelling across the room: "Hey Mark, what is the bank password?"
   I yell back "Its the 95 password!"
   And no one in that room will have any idea what my password is.



3. Giving out your passwords.
   And lets say there is some emergency (and it better be a real emergency) and you have no choice but to tell someone your password over the phone to give them access to something. AS LONG AS THEY DONT WRITE IT DOWN, you can tell them your password one letter at a time as they type it in, and as long as you don't share the pattern used to create the password, they most likely will never be able to remember it. I've had to do this maybe 3 times in my entire life. You should only do it when there is absolutely no other option and to someone you unconditionally trust. But in all 3 cases they were unable to recall the password after just a few seconds, as there is nothing recognizable in the password for their brain to latch on to.