How secure is your password

[Hom3r]

Saw this on the Gadget Show

http://howsecureismypassword.net/

My password didn't do well at all

A minor mod to it and its now 1,000 years

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for a laugh I used "Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysilio gogogoch" it will take a while

About 427 sesvigintillion years

[Tim Deegan]

Originally Posted by Hom3r

Saw this on the Gadget Show

http://howsecureismypassword.net/

My password didn't do well at all

A minor mod to it and its now 1,000 years

Hmm, how do you know you haven't just given your password to a dodgy site?

[Kymmy]

It's all right to say that the password I entered would take 108 days to crack but that's a single PC working 24/7 on a local password with instant response on a brute force attack.. Take into account that most passwords are non-local would mean that instead of testing 100 passwords a second it instead it would take about 3 seconds a password. so take 108 days and multiply by 300 which gives me 32400 days.. If your server security hasn't banned/flood protected the IP after the first 20 attempts then something is seriously wrong.

[Hom3r]

One tip it suggested was think of a saying

For example "One small step for man one giant leap for mankind"

Take the first letter of each word and capitalise every other letter, and add some random characters.

#OsSfMoGlFm? would take 20 million years to crack.

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Originally Posted by Tim Deegan

Hmm, how do you know you haven't just given your password to a dodgy site?

Good point, It was on the gadget show and they were doing a piece on passwords, and a company was tring to open some docs that they had done.

So I would doubt very much it would use a dodgy site.

[Tim Deegan]

It doesn't seem to matter how secure your password is with Paypal, because their security is terrible, and hackers will get it anyway.

[Hugh]

Mine was 1 billion years....

[Gary L]

Originally Posted by Hugh

Mine was 1 billion years....

Mine was 169 days. but if I call you something else it goes all the way up to 314 years

[Peter_]

My password for here and my router password would take 1 billion years.

If you type in 60 x a it says it would take about 1 duovigintillion years

[cimt]

600 years for a password I use for most stuff and 362 billion years for my router password.

[Hugh]

Originally Posted by Gary L

Mine was 169 days. but if I call you something else it goes all the way up to 314 years

Strange.

When I put in what I call you, this appeared

Common Password: In the top 700 most used passwords

Your password is very commonly used. It would be hacked almost instantly

[BenMcr]

I want to know what the number 1 most used password is - because it's not 'password'

[Gary L]

Originally Posted by Hugh

Strange.

When I put in what I call you, this appeared

Common Password: In the top 700 most used passwords

You need to add Garyisa at the beginning and it'll go up to 2 million years.

[Kymmy]

Originally Posted by Gary L

You need to add Garyisa at the beginning and it'll go up to 2 million years.

Nope..it just said "CORRECT" ???

[Gary L]

Originally Posted by Kymmy

Nope..it just said "CORRECT" ???

I'll pop round and show you where you're going wrong.

[Kymmy]

If you wish too.. the boys will enjoy the visit



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