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What's Your Password

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On important sites (bank accounts, work etc) I just take the name of the page & run it through a mixed substitution/transposition cipher that I have memorized.

That way if I ever forget the password I can easily decipher it using the information on the site itself.
 
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Muck;2044880; said:
On important sites (bank accounts, work etc) I just take the name of the page & run it through a mixed substitution/transposition cipher that I have memorized.

That way if I ever forget the password I can easily decipher it using the information on the site itself.
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What?
 
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ScottsdaleBucki;2044884; said:
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Let's say I was using it for this site (which I don't incidentally).

You would start with buckeyeplanet.

A very simple encryption algorithm is the Caesar cipher.

If we just use a shift 1 we get:

abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
zabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxy

Take each letter from the word, find it in the top alphabet & then replace it with the one directly underneath.

Doing that with buckeyeplanet gives us:

atbjdxdokzmds

Since most systems require at least one alpha numeric character you can just do what many people do normally...replace any vowels with a corresponding character (ie a=@, e=3, i=1, o=0, u=^). If a upper case letter is required you can make a consistent rule to always make the same character upper case every time...so let's say the third from the right.

Doing that leave us with:

@tbjdxd0kzMds

bucknuts = @tbjmTsr

The two ciphers I use are ones I can do in my head without writing them down so it's much quicker & easier for me in practice.

Basically the advantage is that it allows me to create a unique password for every site I visit without it being necessary to remember what the password is. If I completely forget the pword for a site I can just re-encode it on the fly from the page itself.
 
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