Print Your Own Password Cards

A deck of Password Cards consists of 70 cards. Each card has a letter or number on it. There are 26 x 2 cards for letters of the Alphabet, plus 9 x 2 cards for numbers. Zero is not used as a number card because it is easily confused (in memorization) with the letter "O". To choose a password, shuffle the deck well, then deal out a set of password cards. If the password you deal is a word, do NOT use it. Deal again. Your password should include UPPER and lower case letters as well as numbers Your password should be AT LEAST 12 characters long. Memorization is easiest if you separate the characters of your password into groups of 4 or 5 characters. Passwords containing one or more words are easily cracked. Short passwords are eaily cracked. There are two versions of the Password Cards. Both versions include 18 number cards. Version 1 has separate cards for UPPER and lower case letters. Version 2 has UPPER and lower case letters on the same card, so that you can choose which letters in your password are UPPER case and which are lower case. The files for printing the Password Cards are available in Microsoft Word format (in case you want to change the file) and in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format. You need Microsoft Word or Adobe Acrobat Reader to print the Password Cards. The Password Cards are designed to print out on Avery Business Cards stock. There are several versions of this stock. The one for Ink Jet printers, with no perferations on the cards, is Avery #8871. But there are other Avery products with the same specs: 10 cards per sheet, 2 inch by 3.5 inch business cards. You do not have to use Avery Business Cards stock. You could print out on your own stock and cut the cards to the correct size. Password Cards -- Microsoft Word format/no grid lines -- Version 1 Password Cards -- Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format/no grid lines -- Version 1 Password Cards -- Microsoft Word format/no grid lines -- Version 2 Password Cards -- Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format/no grid lines -- Version 2 Password Cards -- Microsoft Word format/with grid lines -- Version 1 Password Cards -- Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format/with grid lines -- Version 1 Password Cards -- Microsoft Word format/with grid lines -- Version 2 Password Cards -- Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format/with grid lines -- Version 2 Return to: Secure Password and Passphrase Resources