How strong is your password?
When you are on the net, username and passwords are the norm of every websites that uses membership to access their services. Ranging from emails, forums, news and blogs.
I am sure each of us has more than one password to remember and I know, we have the tendency to use the same password for more than one service. We tend to do that so that we have less password to remember but of course that is quite dangerous and ill-advised.
Okay, now think of the password of your most secured data on the net. It could be your email, admin panel for your blog or your casino account hehe, how long do you think it would take crackers to get your password?
Here’s an article that shows the time it will take for a computer to crack your password, depending on the length and combination of characters.
For instance, any password that is only 4 characters in length can be cracked in an instant on a Pentium 100 (not using any supercomputer powers at all).
So how do you create a good password?
Use a combination of symbols, lowercase and uppercase alphabet and numbers. For example, the password B33r&Mug contains all of the above and even a cracker’s supercomputer needs to try a combination of up to 7.2 quadrillion to crack your password. That will take 83.5 days!
You can also visit this page to check how secure your password is.
Secure your password now!
Article : Password Recovery Speeds
April 24th, 2007 at 7:22 pm
As expected-my password scored low. Any suggestions of password collection keeper of sort so we can keep all our passwords from all over?
April 25th, 2007 at 12:01 am
i use KeePass to keep track of all my passwords. it can show you your password strength and also generate passwords for you so you don’t use the same passwords for all your logins.
it’s free and open source too.
April 25th, 2007 at 12:37 am
Cool. Thanks er..retard. I’ll definitely try it.
April 25th, 2007 at 6:22 am
here’s the url to get keePass, just in case, http://keepass.info/
April 25th, 2007 at 8:20 am
Download it already last night but was too sleepy to play around..hope to try it later today..
April 25th, 2007 at 2:39 pm
klu mau buat jahat..bukak pc urang yang ada password..guna la ini >> http://ophcrack.sourceforge.net/ ekeke