3. Choose a password that you want to use and then come up with a keystroke mapping system. For example, if you choose to do an “upper-left” keystroke system you would choose the letter to the upper-left of the actual key you wanted. So if your password was qwert (not recommended) your new password would be 12345 (also not recommended). If the word you wanted to use for your password was football, your keystroke password would be r995gqoo. It sounds complicated, but you need to look at your keyboard anyway, why not just choose the letter to the upper-left, left, or lower-right of the word you choose to remember. There’s no substitute for remembering every combination username and password, but when you find that this becomes overwhelming, instead of lowering your password management standards, invest in a secure password management program such as RoboForm.

The RoboForm solution
RoboForm is the most complete password management solution on the market. It will securely remember and encrypt your passwords on your computer in an encrypted Passcard file. It allows you to then use those Passcards to log into websites with one-click. The program uses some of the strongest encryption methods available including AES, Blowfish, and RC6.

If you are having difficulties generating strong passwords, RoboForm will generate and store difficult-to-hack passwords for you. The password generator can be customised to fit your needs including generating random passwords of any length, up to 512 characters. Other password generator options include:

• A user can specify a set of characters to appear in the password, including special characters.
• The ability to exclude similar characters.
• An option to generate hexadecimal passwords.