Password managers or passwords from memory

[lovesmayfamilis]

There are several sites that offer to check the strength of your passwords.
Although you should be completely skeptical, you should also not trust these sites with your passwords. But having understood the principle of a quality password, which they speak of as reliable, it is easy to create another one in the same format.

https://www.security.org/how-secure-is-my-password/
https://password.kaspersky.com/

[Lida93]

Mind you Password manager are  not totally free from experiencing a crash like every other systems too. So its much safer to have a password out of your memory, one that's reliable and you can easily remember through attachment of the figures and letters of the password to things important in your life.
Remember you can't crash expect death but a system can at anytime.

[Dunamisx]

Creating a password is very important, weak passwords means hackers can easily gain access to your accounts

I think it's not all about having a long password that the user may apparently find difficult to remember but rather having a combination of alphanumeric use for password, this is one of the strongest ways we can secure ourselves against an attack because using an ordinary name or some common to us can be easily guessed by someone close to us, here are some common mistakes made by users about password combination.

First scenario, they uses a common number sequence of 0-9
Secondly, they make use of repeated numbers like 55555 which is in five place or more using any other number, lastly they use alphabetical words like their surname, mother's name, father's name, and names of common things that are favourite to them, these are some of the ways users creates vulnerability for an attack all by themselves unknowingly.

[jamyr]

Another safe way would be to create your own password manager in a secondary device that doesn't connect to the internet. If I am not mistaken, they call it like air-gap something...

This maybe a lot of work for password managing but I believe it to be very effective.

[AakZaki]

Another safe way would be to create your own password manager in a secondary device that doesn't connect to the internet. If I am not mistaken, they call it like air-gap something...

This maybe a lot of work for password managing but I believe it to be very effective.

yes it is more effective with methods like airgrab because this password manager is not connected to the internet. Devices that are still connected to the internet are still vulnerable to malware and hacking.
And some other offline storage can also use notes on a piece of paper or a special book that is stored properly.
The ultimate security depends on the user and the device, if the user is negligent and the device is easy to hack, then any way will be useless.

[Alisha-k]

It all depends on how good you are at memorizing complex characters and alphanumeric keys. I prefer password from my memory a million times to password managers. Since i make use of Characters, numeric keys and special characters i feel secured with my passwords, except this password managers are generated offline else no way

[KingsDen]

It all depends on how good you are at memorizing complex characters and alphanumeric keys. I prefer password from my memory a million times to password managers. Since i make use of Characters, numeric keys and special characters i feel secured with my passwords, except this password managers are generated offline else no way

For how long can you trust your memory? The human memory is already being over-used  for processing daily tasks, for work at office, memorising your relatives names, possibly for knowing the name of your country/state and the name of the president. You may think that it is normal for your brain to store all these. But take your brain like a computer memory, each thing you memorise is either running in KB, MB or GB. So, it is important to relieve the brain of some certain responsibilities.

Personal I have 5 strong passwords(alphanumeric and symbols) that I memorised. I categorised them as normal, secured and most secured. I apply different passwords depending on how important I percieve the website is. But now I'm trying a way to get them off my memory.

[Accardo]

The best thing is, do that which works for you. I remember forgetting the password of an account I logged into everyday. Not that the account is saved on the system, I entered password everyday and one faithful morning I forgot the password. So, the brain sometimes fails to recall things. Password manager I don't recommend for a sensitive account like wallets. Password manager can serve other social accounts that means nothing to your personal information or funds. Though, to escape hackers, use 2fa to backup sensitive accounts. And be careful with whatever backup you are using so that you won't bite yourself. Keep your phone numbers, email or google account used for the backup very safe.

[SuperMariob]

Creating a password is very important, weak passwords means hackers can easily gain access to your accounts, and many of us have a lot of online accounts across different platforms, so creating a password for each account, including emails becomes a task. There are two ways of creating a password, either through your brain or with a password manager, like keePass for example.

The purpose of this topic is to know which of the two ways this community thinks is the safest!!!

If you create passwords from your mind it will have to be complex so hackers can't get it, and it will be difficult for you to remember so you'd have to write them down on paper, because if you save them in your email or online, then it is unsafe, but what of in a situation that the paper you used to back up your password is misplaced or damaged, what are the additional back ups for people who use this method to ensure their passwords are safe forever.

Password managers seem to be the safest, for those who use them, what are the 'do's and dont's', i do not have too much experience with password managers, so can anything go wrong when using them? Any knowledge or experience you have on password creation will be appreciated so others can learn from it.

I never really trusted password managers. I don't like the idea of giving all my password to a software. If it gets hacked....all my passwords are gone.