This is a pretty cool page: "Password Recovery Speeds: How long will your password stand up". Given a password consisting only of numbers, and between 2 and 9 characters, how long would it take a Pentium 100 to crack it using brute force? What if you used a faster PC? What about a supercomputer? OK, now what if your password added letters? And now symbols? And so on. It's a fascinating series of tables, and it may help you to convince folks that they really really really need to change their crappy passwords to something a bit tougher.
How good is your password?
Reader Comments
(Page 1)2. Thanks a lot for this post. I am sure it will help many readers. The main problem is that fi we have a long password, there is the fear of forgetting it. However, we have no choice but to make our passwords complicated so that it cannot be hacke easily.
Posted at 6:35AM on Apr 10th 2006 by Razib Ahmed
1. It's a good thing I use a password PIM/generator.
http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net/
Very useful.
I've got my passwords using uppercase, lowercase, and numbers.
Posted at 6:26AM on Apr 5th 2006 by jammo