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by wodzu 4447 days ago
I thought I will share my idea of unique, memorably passwords. I have a custom in-head hash function that I use to create a unique password for every single website where I have an account.

It works as follow, let's assume this is the domain we try to generate the password for:

www.example.com

The hash process:

1 - take first letter, move 2 in alphabet, capitalize - 2 places after e in alphabte is g ("abcdefg"), capitalize - G

2 - calculate number of words in domain, x2 = 7x2=14

3 - use standard salt - eg. tlpWENT2m

4 - take last letter - e

That leads to a password: G14tlpWENT2me

Which is both easy to remember and allows you to have a unique hashed password for every website around.

Have fun with discovering your own hashing method.

1 comments

How does this work with cross-product passwords where the login can be used across multiple web apps?
Usually with cross-product applications you have some central domain that stands behind all of them. Just use that central domain. Eg. gmail, calendar, etc. are all behind google.