| Aim | To reflect on the creation of passwords |
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| Duration | - |
| Number of participants | any |
| Age | 10+ |
| Difficulty | easy |
| Conditions | Address the topic of passwords when it becomes an issue, e.g. if problems have arisen with passwords |
| Material | Internet access, use of the website www.chekdeinpasswort.de, possibly a beamer |
| Preparation - |
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| Description If secure passwords become an issue, you can use the website checkdeinpasswort.de to quickly check if a password is secure or not. Let the participants do this by themselves. On the website you can also find suggestions on how to recognise a secure password. The example “1234567” consists only of numbers and thus doesn’t have different types of characters, the characters are next to each other on the keyboard, a combination of numbers could be a telephone number, etc.
In this way, the participants can figure out in practice how to create and recognise useful and strong passwords.
Note: How to recognise strong passwords: They consist of as minimum of 8-10 characters including letters, numbers, special characters. They are no real words to be found in a dictionary or existing number combinations, such as telephone numbers or birth dates. Passwords based on a mnemonic are easy to remember, e.g. combining the first letters of the words in a sentence: “I can’t remember long passwords of more than 8 characters!” -> Icrlpomt8c! |
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| Source | OIAT/Saferinternet.at |
| Tags | check, password, Security |