Your 6 Strongest Practical Password Techniques, Ranked

☑️ Six of the strongest practical approaches to generating a password, ranked from best to worst. In short: Password approaches, from best to worst, with examples: Long with random characters: SBH2F%b^xDCUQf5frqBR Long with multiple random words: drying karen ruth afoot sauce Medium-length words with padding: *-*breakfast pancakes*-* Medium-length words with random characters: l)ws7.BOZ1 Shorter with padding: 4*iforgot*4 Shorter with random characters: (8dQ,]a Regardless, use different passwords on every site and use a password vault to track them all. Updates, related links, and more discussion: https://askleo.com/132876 🔔 Subscribe to the Ask Leo! YouTube channel for more tech videos & answers: https://go.askleo.com/ytsub ✅ Watch next ▶ How Long Should a Password Be? ▶    • How Long Should a Password Be? Longer   Chapters 0:00 Passwords 0:50 A very insecure password 2:09 Criteria for good passwords 5:05 Don't reuse passwords 5:34 Use a password vault 6:10 Long random characters 7:35 Multiple random words 9:09 Multi-word mangled phrase 10:04 Medium length words with padding 11:06 Medium length random characters 11:58 Shorter with padding 12:44 Link matters more than complexity 12:58 Short random characters 14:19 Making it easier 14:37 Use a password vault ❤️ My best articles: https://go.askleo.com/best ❤️ My Most Important Article: https://go.askleo.com/number1 More Ask Leo! ☑️ https://askleo.com to get your questions answered ☑️ https://newsletter.askleo.com to subscribe to the Confident Computing newsletter. ☑️ https://askleo.com/patron to help support Ask Leo! ☑️ https://askleo.com/all-the-different-... for even more! #askleo #passwords #security