Today's lecture on cybercrime made me remember a report on CNN. Research says that given today's ease in computing possible combinations of passwords, a good combination would have to be 12 characters long to ensure baseline security. Somehow it strikes the perfect balance between security and convenience, as opposed to 11 and 13-character passwords. It could be a phrase, or a combination of alphabets and symbols found on the keyboard. Or better yet, just come up with your own magical word, one that doesn't even appear logical. The longest password allowed on the net was 32 characters long, employed by a financial company.
According to the report, given that a good hacker might be able to try 1 trillion passwords per second, it can take 180 years to crack an 11-character password. 12 characters give you 17,134 years of security.
A password that would outlive would-be crackers and cybercriminals. Just be careful though; the human mind can be unreliable sometimes that a blur in one's memory can forever bar access to whatever it is that needs protecting. No access for everyone, including the person who created it in the first place.
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