Strong Passwords For A Couple?

Question

I need a strong password that both I and my boyfriend can remember. It was 08072013 because 08/07/2013 was the first day we met, but now everyone knows our password, and that's not good. Please help! I was thinking about doing something like Layla Lauren or something that had to do with it because that's going to be our daughters name. Currently, we aren't planning on having any children for a little while though, so it can't be our child's birthday. I want it to be something complicated though that no one else we understand, but the two of us. Please, and thank you.

Answer 1

All the other answers are GREAT. But the one from Jon has the best bit of advice. Don't share passwords with a close friend or soul-mate. Everyone should have a separate password. Relationships go sour. Friendships wax and wane. The only person you can always depend on is you.



I assure you, one day you'll regret it if you share all your passwords with your boyfriend. You can rely on that. It's great that you repose such trust in someone at the moment, but some day something will be misconstrued and bad feelings will ensue. It's best to keep some things private. And, this is not something that you two should do secretly; the two of you should talk about this topic and be transparent to each other about this particular boundary line that you'll be setting up.

Answer 2

Its best using strong passwords with at least 8 characters of both upper and lower case letters, numbers, and symbols. A password like b*2#L%8e is strong. You shouldn't use the same password for every account either. I recommend Keepass: http://sourceforge.net/projects/keepass/ This will keep all your passwords and you will only have to remember one password to open Keepass.

Answer 3

What are your names? Steve and Sally? Capitalize the last letter. Then add a number, how about a birthday? 10/23? And a special character. Maybe a splat *?



stevEsallY1023*



To respond to the others, there are suitable circumstances for shared passwords. Home security is a prime example. Everybody of reasonable age who lives in the house needs to be able to disable the alarm.



There's no need to get crazy with a lot of special symbols. Computer cracking programs can guess symbols just as easily as letters. That will only accomplish making it harder for you to remember.



"Through 20 years of effort, we've successfully trained everyone to use passwords that are hard for humans to remember but easy for computers to guess." -- Randall Munroe

Answer 4

Sorry you don't want to hear this, but you give no pass word to your boyfriend. The Password Meter should help you.

Answer 5

Pick a quote from a poem, book, or movie that you both like, and use the first letter of each word. For example, if you like the last line from "Casablanca": "Louie, this looks like the beginnings of a beautiful friendship.", your password would be:



Ltlltboabf

Answer 6

Everyone knows your password....?

Imo, if you have a new one, in time everyone will know it, too.



ps: You're not a couple. Get your own password. You'll be glad you did when you break up.

Answer 7

"LaylaLauren" can be a good one if written like this: |_4YL4|_@ur3n



Of course, don't use this one by just copy-pasting, that would be silly because everyone seeing this will know it. This was just an example, you can just use any favorite word or phrase and write them "stylishly" to turn them into good passwords.