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by coloncapitald 4449 days ago
I didn't find this method very convenient.

What I have been doing for years is remember one single password which would meet the password requirements of most websites.

For e.g. &<asterisk>I87yuU

This is 8 characters long, has upper-case and lower-case letters, numbers and symbols (Also if you try typing on the keyboard, it is actually a pattern).

I can remember one such password. Now, I have a formula for any website or app for which requires me to create credentials. This formula will help me add website specific information to the password.

Say the website is news.ycombinator.com, I will use second and third letters of ycombinator which is 'co' and increment both by 1 to make them 'dp' and add this somewhere in the password, which makes it

&<asterisk>dpI87yuU

Now, obviously unless someone knows my encryption technique, even if they get to know password of one of my accounts, they can never know the others.

P.S. I feel I have gone too far to explain this. Please don't hack my Paypal.

1 comments

I have used something like that before too, but it worries me. If I found that password here I would immediately notice that the last two characters stand out, and see the pattern.