How to create strong passwords

Step-by-step guide to create passwords securely

Who has not experienced the discomfort of losing access to an email or account of some kind due to not remembering the password? Or receive the surprise of losing access to your accounts because they were hacked by a digital criminal?

These situations mentioned above and many more are part of the dilemma of creating and storing passwords. Although websites recommend long, strong passwords, with special characters and alphanumeric characters, it is becoming increasingly difficult to remember them. Without forgetting that it is not advisable to use the same password for everything. Have you ever thought about having to memorize a password like kisEErsje@093rL? That's how it is.

Following the trail of Bitcoin we learned that sometimes less is more and based on this I found a way, using a common tool for Bitcoiners, to create secure and easy-to-access passwords by just memorizing 3 words. I'm talking about Ian Coleman.

You may be wondering, how can you use a mnemonic code converter to create, remember, and store passwords? There he left the explanation.

Ian Coleman, as I said before, is a mnemonic code converter that is used to generate seeds for the creation of a deterministic Bitcoin wallet, but in order not to go into technical details, I leave you the link where you can check how it works https:// / github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0039.mediawiki.

Ian Coleman offers to generate 3 to 24 seeds as shown in the image below:

In addition to choosing the number of seeds to choose, you can also choose the language in which these words will be generated. Don't forget that to generate a portfolio the ideal is to keep the selection in English.

For the purposes of this text, we will only use 3 words and as shown in the following image, a warning will appear alerting about the security of this choice, however the intention is not to create a wallet but rather a password manager.

You can also select Bypass Path if you prefer and enter BIP84 which will generate addresses starting with “bc1”

And what use would these addresses be? How am I going to memorize them?

Don't worry, the idea is to simply memorize only the 3 randomly created seeds and at most the passphrase and if you need to create an account, simply go to the iancoleman.io website, enter the 3 seeds manually and add the passphrase if you have generated. one .

Assuming you want to create a Gmail account, after choosing your email address you will need to generate a password and that is where these addresses come in and will serve as a strong password.

Q- Oh, but when Ian Coleman's website closes, will I lose everything?

A- No, if you memorize the 3 seeds.

Q- But don't the addresses change randomly?

A- No. Whenever seeds are placed, the addresses will appear in the same order as they were created the first time.

I don't know if it is the best system to memorize passwords or store them, it is one more tool to not depend on cloud storage or the use of applications where their origin is often dubious.

For those who want to try, I leave here the same seeds used “catalog Snake Claim” and passphrase “12345”

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Also, if you are interested in buying BTC privately, just telegram me: @JKRo_P2P or @Ideavonmises.

Credits:

Text production: JKro

Editing and review: Miguel Rosa