Use your Chemical Knowledge to Improve Your Network Security While Improving your Remembering of the Periodic Table
kilomentor | 16 February, 2009 16:54
As a Valentine gift to Kilomentor chemical process development readers here is a way to easily improve your network security using your specialized knowledge of chemistry to improve your passwords.
Steps for making a Password for use on the web
- 1. choose the word
- 2. starting with the first two letters identify whether it is a chemical element and if it is these two letters will be part of the password written as capital then small ie Ti
- 3. if the first two letters are not a chemical element then is the first letter one
- 4. if so it becomes part of the password ie W (tungsten) from Winchester
- 5. Now move to the next letters if the first two letters have been accepted, or to the second letter if only the first letter was accepted.
- 6. repeat the operation examining first two letters together and then the first of the two letters.
- 7. Continue until you reach the end of the word selected
- 8. Always prefer two letter elements over one letter ones
9. Omit letters that do not make up elements
Examples:
Mississippi ISSiSSiPPI
kiIomentor KIONO
chemistry CHeISY
engineer NINeEr
inauguration InAuURaTiON
Winchester WInCHeSTe
You will find that you can quickly and easily choose the capitals, small letters and omitted letters as you type the password. Now your password is not a word at all and is enhanced with both capital and small letters apparently randomly selected. Even if this method were known to a person trying to break your password constructed in this fashion, it would be at least as strong as the word you are presently using.
passwd [Reply]
Mark | 20/02/2009, 00:50
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mevans | 27/02/2009, 08:50
Neato!
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Nice advice!
Quantum chemistry folks can also build passwords from famous equations, e.g.:
<Psi|Psi>=1