Create Complex Passwords That You Will Always Remember Through Poetry
Sometimes it can be difficult to come up with a super secure password that is easy to remember . However, with a little poetry, you can create a very strong password that will remain in your head like a nursery rhyme.
Generally speaking, the longer the password, the better. The problem is, the longer the password, the harder it is to remember. So what can you do? Marjan Ghazvininejad and Kevin Knight of the Institute of Information Science at the University of Southern California invite you to write a simple poem. During their research, they randomly generated poems consisting of two eight-syllable lines that rhyme. For those of you who reckon, this gives passwords a whopping 60 bits, which is pretty reliable. Here are some randomly generated examples:
- McLaren often emphasizes what he considers neo-entrepreneurship.
- Japan, Columbia, student vacations in London
- Kansas Fountain Experience, Overseas Market Workers
Of course, in the form of a password, the words will be concatenated together, for example, “akansasfountain …”, perhaps with some capital letters or numbers in there somewhere (some words can be abbreviated even for added security). When researchers Ghazvininejad and Knight checked the memory of study participants, their passwords from rhyming verses were much easier to remember than other passwords with equal strength. It might be worth writing a little poem the next time you need to come up with a password. If you don’t want to write it yourself, you can also use their generator to create it randomly. You can read the full study at the link below.
How to Remember a Random 60-Bit String | University of Southern California via Quartz