- Create or find a classroom resource that teaches students about creating strong passwords, passcodes or passphrases.
Never use sequential numbers or letters, and for the love of all things cyber, do not use "password" as your password.
The more you mix up letters (upper-case and lower-case), numbers, and symbols, the more potent your password is, and the harder it is for a brute force attack to crack it.
These days, random character placement is much more effective than common leetspeak* substitutions.
Multiple words will confuse the dictionary attack method — remember, these attacks reduce the possible number of guesses to the number of words we might use to the exponential power of the number of words we are using.
Activity one: Aim: To learn which password combinations are the hardest to guess or crack.
Advise students that they should not share their own passwords at any time during the activity!
Ask the class to suggest passwords that they think people might commonly use (both combinations – e.g. 'password' and categories – e.g. pet names).
Explain to the students why it is important not to use a common password (including types).
A passphrase is similar to a password in usage, but it is longer and more secure.
For password: "Iamnotab00kw0rm_Iamab00kDRAG0N!"
Activity two: Aim: To learn how to design a strong password that is easy to remember.
Advise students that they should not share their own passwords at any time during the activity!
Each team has a short amount of time to create a password based on a passphrase (adjust time to suit the age of your students).
Two teams at a time write their password on the board / into a shared document.
Ask the students to spend time at home sharing the passphrase method with their families and designing some passphrases they can use for their own passwords (and then changing them!
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