Password strength tester

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You may have heard of Gibson Research, especially if you're an old-time PC tinkerer and used Spinrite to set up your hard disc. Whilst wandering over their site I found this section which will test the strength of any password that you might use, or want to use, and give an estimated time of how long it would take to crack it using brute force.

If you've ever had your email account hijacked you'll know how important a strong password is and you could try putting that old password in (you DID change it didn't you?) to see how easy it was to break.

https://www.grc.com/haystack.htm
 
I've an easier way, Paul: You tell me what your Passwords are and I'll tell you how strong they are!
 
OK. Do you need my bank details as well?
 
I use a really strong password for facebook, my Sky+ HD serial number in Hex and I use my Sky HD boxkey as a password on another site lolol

Nothing to connect back to me (personally) and nothing anyone could guess or gain access too (since the boxes are both here with me lol)

Converting passwords to Hexidecimal is a good way to keep them strong/secure IMHO
 
I've just put the password that came with the modem when I went ADSL in France into the checker. It sored an impressive 4.37 million trillion centuries for online cracking.

The amazing thing (for me) is that I've had tqo more modems since then (nearbye lightning strikes) with different passwords that I can't remember.
 
Still not visible... a small crumb of comfort then :-bang
 
These days most PCs are hiding behind a router though, so probably not as visible as they where a few years ago with those horrible USB ADSL modems.
 
Tivù said:
I've an easier way, Paul: You tell me what your Passwords are and I'll tell you how strong they are!
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Well, you can test mine. It's

1234567

But sometimes I use:

7654321

:)
 
Actually, I was guilty of oversimplification with the title of the thread. It's not a strength tester but a complexity tester. If you put Password1 in to be tested then it'll show as complex but, of course, to a human being it's quite an easy one to guess.

If your password is subjected to a hacking attempt by some nogoodnik then they have a list of commonly used passwords which are tried before they go onto other pssword creating techniques. The idea is to make yours stronger than the next person's - and preferably stronger than the next couple of thousand people! That why they'll give up and move on.
 
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