Perfect Passwords: Selection, Protection, Authentication [ILLUSTRATED] (Paperback)

All of us remember when we first started with computers or the internet. We quickly learned that everything seems to need a password so to cope with that, we develop a password strategy. But statistics show that most password strategies aren't that great and are in fact so often predictable that crackers too often crack them in a matter of minutes. Some companies might assign you completely random character sequences but how many of those do you ever remember without writing them down? Some companies might force you to select complex patterns that include numbers and symbols, but a dictionary word followed by one or two numbers is the most common password pattern. Some companies force users to change their passwords so frequently that users end up with highly predictable patterns. But users aren't to blame, it's just that no one has taught them how to cope with strict password policies. This book will teach you how to cope with the world of password policies, password crackers, and human predictability. It teaches specific password patterns that will meet even the most unyielding security policy requirements but that users will remember in a snap. If you deal with passwords, you need this book.