It is important to choose a strong password for your Encrypted Drive. CryptArchiver allows for passwords (or rather, passphrases) from 8 upto 100 characters. You can use a sentence as your pass phrase. This makes your passphrase easy to remember, and also long enough.
Good passwords and bad passwords
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You should be able to remember your password easily.
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It should be long and use a wide range of characters in an unpredictable order.
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It should be very difficult to guess, even for someone who knows you well.
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You should be able to type in your password quickly so that anyone looking over your shoulder cannot see what you are typing.
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You can use a good password generator program to generate random passwords.
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You can use the first or second letter of each word in a line from a song.
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A sentence can be used as a long passphrase.
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Some passwords look like good passwords, but they are easy to crack.
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Passwords based on personal information like names, nicknames, birthdates, phone numbers, social security numbers, etc., or even parts of these;
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Passwords based on your username, email address, login name or computer name;
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Passwords based on nearby objects e.g. "monitor", "keyboard" or "redpillow";
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Those based on terms from books, literature or the media like "quidditch", "santraginus" etc.
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Keyboard sequences like "asdfghj", "qwerty", "01234567890" etc.
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Repeated patterns like "aabbccdd", "12121212", "alfalfalfalfa" etc.
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Words that can be found in dictionaries - both English and foreign.
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A word followed by one or more numbers, or symbols.
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Words spelt backwards.
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Jargon, slang, swear words, or even passwords other people use.
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Changing your password
Consider changing your password on a regular basis, and also whenever you suspect that your password is known to somebody else. How often you should change your password depends on the perceived threat to your security. However, if you change your password too often, you risk forgetting it.
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Note : CryptArchiver uses extremely strong cryptography. There are absolutely no backdoors. No one can access your encrypted data without the password. Please remember your password.
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