How secure is your password?

[Clownfish]

http://www.pcgamer.com/gabe-newell-gives-out-his-steam-password/

steam may be secure but a lot of other things aren't

[Ad Bot]

[Ipquarx]

My point is that 4 billion is beyond unobtainable.
The 4 billion figure is just an arbitrarily chosen extremely high number, not any type of actual "case"

Worst case scenario that doesn't involve them directly getting your password is that they've already hacked the site and they have your password hash. That's where the GPUs come in :P

[portify]

https://howsecureismypassword.net/

better (opinionated) option: dropbox's new strength estimator https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/209/zxcvbn/test/index.html

[ZSNO]

I'm not sure why you guys are thinking 4bil hashes/sec is some absurd number...
Here's a random guy's hashcat benchmark with 8 290X's:
https://gist.github.com/epixoip/8171031
He can do 81.5 BILLION MD5 hashes/second.

There's a couple sets of benchmarks on hashcat's website:
https://hashcat.net/oclhashcat/

[Golurk]

One day this site is going to be a variation of the original goggle site.

An accurate representation is asking for your username and password for (X) site, then redirecting you to a bunch of different malware sites that redirect you to another site, eventually to spyhunter.

[Refticus]

thanks website.

[Nonnel]

informative

[Dragonoid.Slayer]

Primary:


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[NEkram]

[Snaked_Snake]

it says it would take 48 quintillion years to crack the whole alphabet as a password, No time at all to crack all 1 digit numbers and 842 undecillion years to crack the whole alphabet and every 1 digit number.

[JamesH]

It would take a desktop PC about 349 thousand septuagintillion years to crack your password

interesting

[Xalos]

I generated a fairly typical, run-of-the-mill password from my password manager.

j1Yd(!&wS_TMg#\HOI>#,/8E<|+,<rK 8WtNh=H!AEpy4>EV6Qu+/qEIsZw$}3[$

The website in question gives an estimate of 58 quinquatrigintillion (5.8*10¹⁰⁹) years, but of course it doesn't take into account the vast technological improvements that would happen over that timespan.


Mind you, it's a rather moot point, as I will now never use that as a password for anything, due to having posted it here.

[shamester]

It would take a desktop PC about
275 days
to crack your password

[Niff]

:^)

Seriously though, my passwords are pretty terrible

[Xalos]

correct horse battery staple

"154 octillion years (1.54*10²⁹)"


...somehow, I don't think so.