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How strong is your password?

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DO NOT USE YOUR OWN PASSWORD

 

First thing I thought was, 'Should I use someone else's password? That wouldn't be very secure'. I put it down to the blood that ought to be in my brain being in my belly dealing with a heavy lunch...

  • Moderator

Absolutely nothing is as "strong" as a GUID:

 

Password: 868d5105-1379-4f1d-8ae1-e20ea77f2307

 

Time To Crack:

1.0156513179718275e+31 centuries

Total Passwords in Pattern:

31,000,000,000,000 Decillion

 

Even just a small portion of a GUID is sufficient!

 

Password: 1379-4f1d

 

Time To Crack:

35 centuries

Total Passwords in Pattern:

107 Quadrillion

Fr. Bill    

AOPA Member: 07141481 AARP Member: 3209010556


     Avsim Board of Directors | Avsim Forums Moderator

Love KeePass :)

 

Time To Crack:

 

4415421574696291 centuries

Total Passwords in Pattern:

13 Nonillion

 

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So, what is the point then, to found out a password I don't use is strong or week?

 

I don't want you burned or any other way, just think we need to stick to some integrity, but I can agree that some people have week passwords.

 

And a tip for a forum like this is not to use anything aviation or simulation related in your password, or even words or a sentence, just random letters and numbers is the best.

 

The point is... to test out a password idea that you might have to see how secure it is, then you would come up with something similar in pattern or scope to use as a real password. For example let's say I was thinking about using the following as a password. 29$foodisGood@ So I go to the website as posted by the OP, and type in 51&sNostormS# if that comes back as a "strong" password, then you're probably good to go with the first example. I'm not sure what all the confusion is about.

Jeff

Commercial | Instrument | Multi-Engine Land

AMD 5600X, RTX3070, 32MB RAM, 2TB SSD

This app doesn't seem to be able to handle this password... ß|7_+@lK

  • Commercial Member

Password:

 

abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz (26 letters)

 

Time To Crack:

8137746903032372 centuries

Total Passwords in Pattern:

25 Nonillion

 

 

Password: 1a2b3c4d5e6f7g8h9i0j1k2l3m (26 numbers and letters)

 

Time To Crack:

290683365768961500000 centuries

Total Passwords in Pattern:

880 Decillion

www.antsairplanes.com

  • Moderator

Ant, notice that a 16 character GUID (which includes the - character) is still substantially stronger than your 26 character pw...

 

Note that it is so strong that the time to crack has to be expressed in exponential notation!

 

1.0156513179718275e+31 centuries

 

Or, writing it out another way:

 

1.0156513179718275 x 1031

 

That is of course still quite a bit less than full entropy, but nonethess more than long enough... :p0126:

Fr. Bill    

AOPA Member: 07141481 AARP Member: 3209010556


     Avsim Board of Directors | Avsim Forums Moderator

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