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ReaderGuy · Mar 26, 2013

This is an interesting website I found. It was linked from an Avast webpage.

It shows how fast a password can be cracked.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/209/zxcvbn/test/index.html

perfanoff · Mar 26, 2013

Pretty nifty page.

9006 · Mar 27, 2013

There's a lot of these around, I actually made one of these for windows along with a password generator.

Here's another basic one that's decent:

http://howsecureismypassword.net/

ReaderGuy · Mar 27, 2013

9006 said:
There's a lot of these around, I actually made one of these for windows along with a password generator.

Here's another basic one that's decent:

http://howsecureismypassword.net/

Wow, they show completely different time frames for the same password.

9006 · Mar 27, 2013

Here's another one I use to use:

http://lastbit.com/pswcalc.asp

I haven't for a while - I had to search around because I couldn't quite remember what it was called.

Rosebolt · Mar 27, 2013

My password took 16 years to crack, haha.

9006 · Mar 27, 2013

That's probably on a normal computer - it would take a lot less time on a server or even less on a supercomputer - or superquick if you've got a spare LAN!

perfanoff · Mar 28, 2013

Should be very fast if the crack is programmed for the GPU, it's practically 100% parallel

9006 · Mar 28, 2013

perfanoff said:
Should be very fast if the crack is programmed for the GPU, it's practically 100% parallel

Yes I read about those clever asses that used the GPU for this, I also read about a new technique to encryption by storing information fragmented as bits.

Impressive stuff!

Oniseke · Jun 12, 2013

Not holding my breath, but when quantum computing comes along, I surmise that it will render the common password obsolete
I have a feeling it will revolutionise the way in which we access our accounts across many services.

That said, another great way to keep your accounts safe these days is to also change your password regularly.

9006 · Jun 12, 2013

When quantum computing does happen there'll be a huge performance boost so there will be other means they could implement relating to that.

For example they could create password generators that uses your password as a kind of cipher-key along with complex algorithms that would generate huge password strings, that way it would kinda balance out.

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