April 07, 2006
Why you need strong passwords

How long it takes to crack your password depending on how many possible characters (lower case only, upper and lower case, numbers and letters, etc.)

For example:

Password: darren (created from 10 possible characters)
Possible combinations: 308.9 Million
Time to crack at 10,000 passwords/se: 8½ Hours
Time to crack at 1,000,000 passwords/sec: Instant

Password: Land3rz (created from 62 possible characters)
Possible combinations: 3.5 Trillion
Time to crack at 10,000 passwords/sec: 11 Years
Time to crack at 1,000,000 passwords/sec: 58 Mins

Password: B33r&Mug (created from 96 possible characters)
Possible combinations: 7.2 Quadrillion
Time to crack at 10,000 passwords/sec: 22,875 Years
Time to crack at 1,000,000 passwords/sec: 83½ Days

Posted by dcoates at April 07, 2006 10:19 AM
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