How secure is your password

[daj]

An interesting calculation -- enter a password and it tells you how long it would take to crack it

http://howsecureismypassword.net/

My 'normal' one for forums, etc was 4 days -- for my banking 417 years!

[nitrx]

It would take

About 3 minutes

for a desktop PC to crack your password

[daj]

I think you need to change your password

[nitrx]

iDaffodil wil take about 8 years

[robynfali]

It would take

About 700 million years

that's my banking one

and 6 days for my forum one

[robynfali]

oh, my other bank one


It would take

About 25 billion years

[robynfali]

oh, just a thought with this as well,

presumably the website logs your ip, is it at all possible to use these entries for all the wrong reason by the site owner?

I know i have just changed my two passwords, still take over 700 million years to crack them tho lol

[daj]

I doubt the password is much use on its own.

It's no use without a username, or the site it is associated with

[GraemeT]

Rob,
You can always save the webpage view it locally after examining it for risks.

Just a thought...

[robynfali]

yeah my thoughts too, just thought i would bring it up, my two banks (as I imagine most are these days) require

username
password
pin/memorable word

[Super-T]

What was your Bank A/C # robyn.....I want to get a spare PC started on the crack

[robynfali]

it's Rob, and you will be lucky mate, ain't enough in there to buy the motherboard, let alone anything else, and zero overdraft either buddy