A password quiz..

Here’s a quick password quiz:

Which password below is the hardest to crack but the easiest to remember?
 

1. Jasmine1
2. H&1#5dy<?72Rvlt
3. It’s been a hard days night 4 SueM

If you chose #3, you are a winner.  And you probably use easy-to-remember, hard to crack passphrases (see below for why).

Remember, password managers make remembering a lot of passwords unnecessary.  

Password: Jasmine1
Time to crack: < 1 second
Why it is bad: In a password cracking wordlist

Password: H&1#5dy<?72Rvlt 
Time to crack: 4 trillion years 
Why it is bad unless you use a password manager: Complex but hard to remember and type
 
Password: It’s been a hard days night 4 SueM 
Time to crack: 7 quattuordecillion years (however long that is ;)
Why it is good: A personalized remember-able passphrase that’s 34 characters long!