How to Get a Strong, Unique, and Memorable Password for Each Website

Recent plaintext password turmoil from huge technology companies such as Github[1] and Twitter[2] made it clear that we should have a unique password for each website. If high profile companies having problem managing our password, can you imagine the smaller one? But the drawback of having multiple passwords is that there’s a high chance that we will forget them. In this post I will tell you exactly how to choose a strong and unique password yet still easy to be remembered!

Let say that currently goodhunter42 is your password. To make this unique for each website is simply by adding the name of the website in your password! To make it easier, you can only use the first two letter. For example, if you are registering to Github, the password will become goodhunter42gi. If you are registering to twitter then it’ll become goodhunter42tw. That’s it! ☺️

Super easy and you will remember it everytime you login to those services. Now even if a hacker gets your plaintext password from a service, he/she won’t be able to login to other services. Plus now your password is even stronger than before 💪!

Extra Layers of Security⛑

This is optional but if you want to make it less obvious that you are adding the website’s name, you can:

1. Add the website name after/between the letters/words. In our example it becomes: *goodhuntergi42* or *goodgihunter42*
   
2. Shift the website name by 1 letter. For example, a becomes b, b becomes c, and so on. From previous example it becomes: *goodhunterhj42*
3. If you are using words in your password, it’s better to use only the first 3 or 4 letters of that words. So in our example it becomes: goohungi42 or goohunhj42 . The one who’s reading this plaintext password won’t have a clue how to recontruct your password to other services 👻 .

You can be creative in making steps to add the domain name in the password but don’t make it too complicated and making it’s not comfortable to do it and end up not using it at all. Put a note on how to recontruct the password because you may will forget it in the first weeks. It’ll be your nature someday and you can throw away the note. Trust me on this ✌️

What do you think? Do you have any comments or suggestions? Let me know!

References

[1] https://www.zdnet.com/google-amp/article/github-says-bug-exposed-account-passwords/

[2] https://www.zdnet.com/google-amp/article/twitter-says-bug-exposed-passwords-in-plaintext/