Many people don’t that Windows supports passwords up to 127 characters! So one can use password phrases instead of passwords anymore.

Why one should use password phrases?

• Why memorize a password like ABCDEF when one can remember a sentence such as “Tech fual is a very useful site” or “I still love my ex-girlfriend!” or something similar like that.

• One can use uppercase, lowercase, special characters, or even spaces… but it becomes easy to remember when it’s a phrase instead of a word.

• Post-it notes on your monitor are not safe.

• Even the efficient forms of password cracking, using pre-computed rainbow tables, is not able to able to crack a password having 20 or more characters.

Nowadays, passwords can be cracked within seconds. If one gets physical access to your system, they can disable one of the hacker tool cds out there on the net, and they will have your password within seconds, if done by a professional.

It’s impossible to carack a password having so many characters even using brute force. Even with the super computing powers, One can reset password every few months.

It might be hard to have password phrases on other operating systems, or on websites, reason they can’t handle spaces in the password, or because of the small password length limit. Though one can use a password phrase without spaces.

So go ahead and reset your password.