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Adam Liss, Choreographing Electrons

Since the '70s
Answered 2 years ago · Author has 3.1K answers
and 2.3M answer views
Originally Answered: What is an example of a strong
password with minimum 6 characters?

What is an example of a strong password with

minimum 6 characters?

Here’s one: “▣ ” // Argh: Quora isn’t able to

show the last these characters!
Hex representation: 0xE2 0x96 0xA3 0xEF 0xAC
0x83 0xEF 0xB8 0x99 0xF0 0x9F 0x98 0x9B
0xF0 0x9F 0x9A 0x92 0xF0 0x9F 0x8C 0x88

If you take advantage of UTF-8, you can get up to

4 bytes, or 64 bits, per character. The first several
bits of each byte are predefined (that is, they
can’t be used as part of the randomness), so we
can get a maximum of 21 bits of randomness per
character, or 21 × 6 = 126 bits of randomness in a
6-character password.

That’s similar to a 15-character ASCII password…

but ASCII is so 1990! :)

UTF-8 - Wikipedia
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Bryan Holds a Doctorate in Sarcasm,

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...sometimes in that order
Answered 2 years ago · Author has 730 answers
and 2M answer views
Originally Answered: How do I set a 6 character password?

Q: How do I set a 6 character password?

A2A: First, go back to 1996, when six

characters was adequate for a password.

THEN, it depends on the service you’re using—

not specified in the question—but it’s usually in
your account/security settings.

This answer is long, but it describes pretty well

why using a 6c passwd is a horrible idea.

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Adam Scaramella, Senior Information
Security Analyst at Harvard Business
School (2000-present)
Answered 2 years ago · Author has 1.5K answers
and 1.4M answer views
Originally Answered: What is a good 6-character password
for me?

There is no good 6-character password. Period.

If the site is limiting you to 6-characters, their

security is likely pitiful and you should not provide
them with any information about yourself.

If you are just looking to get a “clever” password

which will allow you to keep it short….sorry, no
such thing.
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Dan Barker, Senior Systems Architect

(2010-present)
Answered 2 years ago · Author has 261 answers
and 264K answer views
Originally Answered: What is an example of a strong
password with minimum 6 characters?

There are no “strong” passwords of only 6

characters. A strong password will have 12 or
more characters. An example strong password
(generated for me, and managed by a password
management product, LastPass) is:
Bjf%V634I&2kU1tovHB0%tgf
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Ramesh Bhatt, Digital creator & Brand

promotion analyser at RIEHCS (2017-
present)
Updated 2 years ago
Originally Answered: What is an example of a strong
password with minimum 6 characters?

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Bruce Loving, Database Analyst and SQL

Administrator at University of North
Carolina at Greensboro (1993-present)
Answered 3 years ago · Author has 404 answers
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Originally Answered: How do I set a 6 character password?

Dont, it is much too easy to hack if its that short.

the United States National Institute for Standards

and Technology (NIST) recommends a minimum
of 8 characters and the more the better.
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Shailesh Srivastava, Self Employed

Answered 3 years ago

Characters in a password means symbols

comprising of alphabets in upper (capitals) and
lower (small) cases, figures from 0 to 9 and
characters such as _,!,#,^,*,$,%, etc. Just for an
example you may take a word of not less than
eight letters such as ‘antediluvian’. You can create
a password “ant3d!1uvIan”, where ‘e’ and ‘l’ are
replaced by figures 3 and 1, ‘i’ is replaced by
character ‘!’ and capital ‘I’ simultaneously. Rest
are lower case letters.
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Creative Prash, Ethical Hacker |

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Answered 1 year ago · Author has 84 answers and
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Originally Answered: What is an example of a strong
password with minimum 6 characters?

A strong password contains special

characters,numbers,upeercase and lower case,
and minimum 8 characters.

Never use phrases,names,D.O.B ,mobile numbers.

These are the weakest password.

Strong password example: 6mp4~J#x

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Barry Stanly, MA Physics, University of

California, Irvine (1973)
Answered 1 year ago · Author has 1.8K answers
and 1.3M answer views
Originally Answered: How do I make a password in 7
characters?

For one you can remember, make a list of 3 letter

words. Draw two random numbers to pick two
words from the list, then add a digit. See: Three
Letter Words

Put them together with a digit somewhere:

Aah7Aim

Do a simple substitution for special characters:

Aah7@im

OR Draw a 7 digit random number. Substitute a

few positions with a letter or special character.
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Andy Burner, Manager at

Bigpasswordlist.com (2015-present)
Answered 1 year ago · Author has 224 answers and
166.3K answer views
Originally Answered: How do I make a password in 7
characters?

It’s very short for password, can be bruteforced

easy (if situation allows bruteforce).

Best you can do is create something like

!@4Js_R.

But as I said - not strong.

Other thing you can try:

TIP OF THE DAY -

there is a sneaky-freaky technique of creating

short but very strong passwords…as you may
know - most of hacking techniques
(dictionary/bruteforce) they all use chars from
keyboard - big letters, small letters, numbers and
special chars.

That’s about 70 possible chars.

So your password will be 70^7 =

8235430000000 combinations.

But - as I said - they all use English alphabet.

So, if system allows, you can create a password

like Fish12! but before you enter it, switch to other
language, like Russian. If systems lets you enter
these chars you gonna have short and strong
password.
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Albert Gutierrez
Answered 1 year ago
Originally Answered: What is an example of a strong
password with minimum 6 characters?

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