How to secure your password - Things you don't know yet about your password

There are several ways on how to secure your password. Basically people use passwords base on their pet names, spouse, birthdays or any other important events and names which are alphabetically simple. On my previous post I mentioned having a seven (7) characters long password is important. In this case, having a seven characters long password is still easy to crack/decode using various method as I have mention on my previous post that it can be much easier using those tools to gain/crack passwords even if it is seven characters long.

A great way to secure your password is having a combination of alphabetical and number, more than seven characters long passwords. Base on my experience, a 7 characters long alphabetical password is cracked only in a few seconds compare to combined alphabet and number passwords. Even a longer than seven (7) characters is cracked within a minutes of waiting using a special method of cracking. Want some proof? Check out my previous post on using Ophcrack and see for yourself!

Even my twelve (12) characters long password - all alphabetical - was cracked by myself in a few minutes which I myself forcefully decided to change it having a number combination to harden the encryption. How does this happen? Having all alphabetical passwords are crack faster because of having "only alphabets" no numbers included, and a less time for decoding it. Truly, MD5 hashed passwords are hard to crack but having your passwords composed of only alphabetical is still vulnerable to cracking. A Salted MD5 hash would do because salted hash is a lot difficult to crack but on windows system is not reliable enough to protect you password.