How to Create a Strong Password
When selecting a new password, please follow these guidelines:
- The password must be 6 to 14 characters long.
- Passwords should contain at least two numbers and two letters, and it's
a good idea to mix upper and lower case letters.
- You cannot choose any word that is in a dictionary, or any names, places,
or personal information like your birth date.
To select a password you can easily remember, follow these tips:
- Choose a word, then scramble it with some random numbers (e.g., buffalo becomes Bu3fa2o).
- Converting an easy-to-remember phrase into an acronym with symbols is also
a good strategy. It is a very fine day could be abbreviated to iiavfd,
and then by adding two non-alphabetic characters, would become a valid password
of iia44fd.
Here are some examples of good and bad passwords:
- g2du75ks is a good password. goducks98 is not.
- o8at45s is a good password. oats22 is not.