What are the different types of passwords you use to secure a Mac

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Tips for creating secure passwords on Mac - Apple Support

Require a password after waking your Mac - Apple Support

I use an alphanumeric with a special character. I cannot find that there is a certain criteria for passwords like some websites have. I am glad Apple leaves this open for the user. This link offers no guidance for passwords - Change or reset the password of a macOS user account - Apple Support

Perhaps I don't understand!?

Can you not have your Mac create such passwords?

https://www.iclarified.com/23680/howhttps://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204397

Or...

https://passwordsgenerator.net/

I'm not certain as I can't use 2FA, hench app-specific passwords...

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204397

I use Password Assistant to create memorable passwords like this: depressors921603/spiritlessness

which gave me this result at the website you linked us to:

By changing one of the letters to a capital the time to crack goes up a bit:

Don't think the Russians will be around that long.

Unfortunately the Password Assistant app is only 32 bit so won't be with me for much longer.

Pick a period of history. Choose 1 - 3 words from that era that you can string together or change some of the characters to obfuscate the words, and use different non-repeating characters to connect the words. My password is 26 characters long, and though that may seem daunting — after a brief time, muscle memory kicks in, and the length of the password is not.an issue for me.

I create passwords in a way that I can write down hints, using the initials of friends, family, or school (57 years ago). or telephone numbers or houlse numbers (mostly now nonexistent). Then I can write a hint that only I can understand.

For example (and obviously these are all fictitious)

A friend called Graham Evans

My grandfather's telephone number 7379

My mother's initials PNM

The office extension at work (now closed) 2218

My maths master NPD

So, ge7379pnm2218npd

Hint:

Graham **

Grandad tel ****

Mum***

Office ****

(Master's surname) ***

This is pretty well unbreakable but I can safely write the hints down.

Since you laid it out, I would not ever call your password unbreakable. I would also never disclose my method of creating a password - you do not know who may be reading or hacking into the site you are publishing it in. The internet is not a safe place nowadays, so I also would not ask anyone to disclose theirs.

Well, I suppose no password is literally unbreakable but that one would take some doing. Obviously it bears no resemblence to any of my actual passwords; and even if someone found the piece of paper with the hints it wouldn't mean anything to them.

Incidentally according to https://howsecureismypassword.net/ it would take a computer (type unspecified) 6 million years to break it. (Kaspersky say 1 million years - obviously a faster computer.)

I tried it out, and it said a paltry 34 thousand years.

Add one more character, and it jumps to 2 Sextillion years.

Very nice. I may just be inclined to add one more character to the passwords I use.

A trick which has been recommended is, rather than using garbage, use three unrelated words. Trying it out:

postillionmanifoldcatharsis

127 quintillion years (127 x 10 to the 12th)

I'd use this idea for my bank but they don't allow anything like enough characters...

Old Toad wrote:

https://discussions.apple.com/content/attachment/96468c3d-7251-412b-9441-a1de20dcd8bf

Its a surprisingly good password. :P

2 nonillion years according to the website.