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Not sure exactly how accurate this is, but it does seem a good guide to me. You put in a password and it tells you how long a desktop PC would take to crack your password. Doesn`t specify the specs, and obviously this would be with password cracking software, and relying on the fact that it can retry passwords as quickly as it can generate them...

But BEFORE you put in your actual passwords to it, remember doing that would be stupid. ;)

http://howsecureismypassword.net/

A few examples I tried, which demonstrate what makes better passwords and what makes a poor one:

dog - 0.0017576 seconds
dog20 - 6 seconds
catdog - 30 seconds
cat20dog - 3 days
ionce76 - 2 hours
ionce76atebread - 700 million years


My login for all my computers tend to be of the last variety, a phrase with a number shoved in the middle.

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well, i feel better :)  mine would take 7 thousand years lol :)

My mail etc. passwords say 42 years...my work one says 10m years!!
I think I need to start using my work password(s) at home :D

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But BEFORE you put in your actual passwords to it, remember doing that would be stupid.
Not really...given that I`m doing it from work and no-one can actually get in to our network (it`s a damn struggle for me and I know the 3 different passwords/modes of access!)

This item was edited on Wednesday, 29th December 2010, 13:37

About 8 Octillion years.

Actually, that`s a lie. I just mashed the keyboard...

Apparently 3 days for mine. Maybe I should change it.

The one I set up for our systems at work would take 564Biliion years. A mixture of CAPS, lowercase and numbers but easy for me to remember. And for unattended system accounts I open a text editor and mash the keyboard to create something 20-30 characters long, then keep a record of it somewhere safe.

Just 417 years for minewhich is a word followed by numbers!

But BEFORE you put in your actual passwords to it, remember doing that would be stupid.

i should point out that i did alter the first 4 charactors of mine,  ;) 

incidentally, antidisestablishmentarianism would take about 13 septillion years

to type while blitzed

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About 988 quintillion years

now thats just a damn lie :p

Just what I needed this fine afternoon, a full blown panic.

Just been through my oft-visted websites, changing passwords. Now I have to remember the new ones. But yeah, when the site comes up with 3 minutes to crack a password, I have to send for my brown pants! Happier now with 15000 years.

Also it doesn`t pay to be a Star Trek fan and try to come up with a password.

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This item was edited on Wednesday, 29th December 2010, 15:40