How long does it take to crack a password (ghacks, hive)

[6730b]

https://www.hivesystems.com/blog/are-your-passwords-in-the-green

https://www.ghacks.net/2024/05/09/how-long-does-it-take-to-crack-a-password-in-2024/

Interesting too see those jumps from millions to billions, trillions.

[Eban]

Personally I like mnemonic type passwords.

eg...this is an old password I haven't used since university days...but in our share house the dialup password (yes I said dial up) was

 

TfdoJi1

The first day of January is 1

(so by this chart 2 weeks for a brute force crack)

 

 

 

 

[crz]

@6730b very interesting, this article is definitely alarming and makes you seriously think about using stronger passwords for greater security, it has become more understandable why a huge number of services insist on it.

 

With the use of modern and more performance technologies, the time required to brute force a password will decrease by a multiple.