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2. Tips to create a strong password - AOL Help

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   Create a strong password. • Use unique words - Don't use obvious words like "password". • Have 12 or more characters - Longer passwords are more secure. • Avoid sequences or repeated characters - Don't use adjacent characters on your keyboard (QWERTY). • Use a different password for each site - Otherwise, if someone acquires one ...

3. Password strength - Wikipedia

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   Password strength. Options menu of the random password generation tool in KeePass. Enabling more character subsets raises the strength of generated passwords a small amount, whereas increasing their length raises the strength a large amount. Password strength is a measure of the effectiveness of a password against guessing or brute-force attacks.

4. Secure Hash Algorithms - Wikipedia

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   The Secure Hash Algorithms are a family of cryptographic hash functions published by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) as a U.S. Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS), including: SHA-0: A retronym applied to the original version of the 160-bit hash function published in 1993 under the name "SHA".

5. List of the most common passwords - Wikipedia

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   The Worst Passwords List is an annual list of the 25 most common passwords from each year as produced by internet security firm SplashData. Since 2011, the firm has published the list based on data examined from millions of passwords leaked in data breaches, mostly in North America and Western Europe, over each year.

6. Password - Wikipedia

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   Password. A password, sometimes called a passcode, is secret data, typically a string of characters, usually used to confirm a user's identity. Traditionally, passwords were expected to be memorized, [1] but the large number of password-protected services that a typical individual accesses can make memorization of unique passwords for each ...

7. Password psychology - Wikipedia

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   The psychology behind choosing a password is a unique balance between memorization, security and convenience. Password security involves many psychological and social issues including; whether or not to share a password, the feeling of security, and the eventual choice of whether or not to change a password. Passwords may also be reflective of ...