An Easy & Secure Way For Encypting Your Passphrases
If you are using cryptocurrencies at one point you will come across pass-phrases. For those not familiar with the term, a passphrase is a sequence of words that is generated while you create a wallet (online or otherwise). It is similar to a password in usage, but much longer for added security. A simple password to guess is never a good idea.
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An easy and secure way to store your passphrases is through a book or a bundle of a series of pages. Just make sure there are enough pages and that they are numbered. You then take your passphrase words and link them with the same found in your pages.
For example the word table could be found on page 5, line 9 and it would be the 3rd word. Our word table is then encrypted into the number 5-9-3. By the end you will have something like this:
5-9-3
62-4-5
9-3-1
12-4-9
3-4-1
96-8-6
23-9-2
12-5-1
Now all you have to remember is the name of your book (and the secret place you secured your encrypted passphrase). You can even take a step forward and create your own version. For example sometimes the words cannot be found within a book. In that case you can encrypt the word table letter by letter. It is much more tedious but also much more secure. In case you find this way too complicated trying using different color highlighters to mark each word differently. You just have to make sure you remember the little encoding ritual.
If you want to take this a step even further, mnemonics are your ally. Try and picture something in your mind that you will never forget. For example, you are very likely to remember by heart all the details from your house to your school or work since it is something that you do on a daily basis. Along that road, there are street signs, specific flowers, types of brick, you name it. Construct a story that is based on a mnemonic and your password will be forever secured in the safest place of all. Your brain.
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Yes this is a good idea, I did a post a little bit ago on a password security lesson. There are tons of ways to be secure with your passwords.
My personal favorite is use a sentence that makes sense to you that no one else would possibly guess
For example: MyFavoriteMovie1sPlaceBeyondThePine$
and you can always write down a hint to yourself like "hint:movie" and immediately you'll remember this. It makes it even more secure when you replace I's with 1's and S's with $, and so on.
very good
I myself learned a neat trick on youtube
Very good idea! Thanks for sharing.
🍒 I liked te trick for making a good password using a book, I do need something like that because sometimes I make passwords that are too simple. By the way, I'm following you know, you got me with the gif at the end of your post "following the blind" hilarious :D
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You don't think it's better to just write all of your passes/phrases into say, a text document then add a password manager of some sort to it?
Someone can always use a key-stroke program and steal all your shit.
very good
I myself learned a neat trick on youtube
this is awesome. thank you!
So much true in this post! UP!!!
Great post. The only downside I can see with mnemonics is the fact that when your brain is gone your children has little or no chance to inherit your crypto or whatever is protected. Not even a smart contract can unlock this. Or please tell me how that would work?
This is true. You can encrypt instructions for your kids in much the same way and include them in your will :)
but in order for your kids to follow instructions that give them access to your encrypted information you need to store that in some readable format. that makes mnemonics obsolete doesn't it?
you could teach that piece of information to you kids and divide the instructions between your kids. Only all of them could make up the complete piece.
Do you think using more that one language makes it safer? Or does that do nothing.
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Edit; SMH....I see now that you use a book for the encryption of that particular passphrase.
I like the post though, I'm still a newbie in crypto, and every help is welcome thank you.
Yeap. The more complicated the better.
This was really helpful! I think I'm going to give this a try.
glad to help
That's actually important and so many people overlook this, it's unbelievable.
indeed. this .is something everyone should take care of.
NICE! thanks for this! Glad you actually wrote it!!!
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