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Posted: 5/3/2011 4:33:00 AM EDT

http://howsecureismypassword.net/

It would take

About 21 thousand years

for a desktop PC to crack your password
ETA: http://howsecureismypassword.net/faq/#safe

Is This Safe?

It is actually. I'm not harvesting passwords into an evil
database. Of course that's exactly the sort of thing I would say if I
were harvesting them. And it wouldn't be hard to do it: a couple of
lines of code and I'd have all your passwords. Mwuhahahahahaa! But, to be honest, I don't know what I'd do with them. Make a cake perhaps.

The bit of code that does the calculations is done in JavaScript.
And JavaScript is a "client-side" language. That means it runs on your computer – not on ours.
No data ever travels from your computer back to the website. You can
check this by loading up the webpage and then turning off your internet
connection. You'll still be able to use the website to your heart's
content.

However, for the super-paranoid among you, you could just type in something a bit like your password rather than your actual password. In fact, that's probably a good idea anyway. Just in case I'm lying.

Posted: 5/3/2011 4:35:15 AM EDT

[#1]

256 character alphanumeric! Ok, go desktop!

Posted: 5/3/2011 4:37:22 AM EDT

[#2]

What eveyone doesn't just use "password"

Posted: 5/3/2011 4:37:40 AM EDT

[#3]

16 years

Posted: 5/3/2011 4:38:42 AM EDT

[#4]

Since I don't even remember it, probably pretty secure.

Posted: 5/3/2011 4:40:36 AM EDT

[#5]

One password I use said 21 thousand years, the others not so good.

Posted: 5/3/2011 4:41:08 AM EDT

[#6]

4 days

Posted: 5/3/2011 4:41:48 AM EDT

[#7]

A slang word in a foriegn language that is unique to a specific region in a specific era. Time starts.....NOW!

Posted: 5/3/2011 4:42:21 AM EDT

[#8]

169 days, it's a long string of random letters and numbers, do I need the entire alphabit and pi?

Posted: 5/3/2011 4:42:54 AM EDT

[#9]

Strong enough that goatboy once commented on how it's longer than most.

Posted: 5/3/2011 4:43:06 AM EDT

[#10]

1 Trillion years. Its a sentence with a number.

ETA: Not my Arfcom password.

Posted: 5/3/2011 4:43:12 AM EDT

[#11]

obamaisaazzhole

It would take

About 362 billion years

Posted: 5/3/2011 4:43:15 AM EDT

[#12]

Quoted:

A slang word in a foriegn language that is unique to a specific region in a specific era. Time starts.....NOW!

Please Lord, save me from temptation.

Posted: 5/3/2011 4:43:16 AM EDT

[#13]

About 5 nonillion years

Posted: 5/3/2011 4:43:22 AM EDT

[#14]

So let me get this straight. You want me to type my passwords into a text box on a random website?

Posted: 5/3/2011 4:52:00 AM EDT

[#15]

According to that website, this password should hold me over for 126 years!

111111111111111111

Posted: 5/3/2011 4:53:25 AM EDT

[#16]

Quoted:

So let me get this straight. You want me to type my passwords into a text box on a random website?

Perfectly safe I tell you!

Posted: 5/3/2011 4:53:27 AM EDT

[#17]

Quoted:

So let me get this straight. You want me to type my passwords into a text box on a random website?

Posted: 5/3/2011 4:53:48 AM EDT

[#18]

fuck is one of the 500 most common passwords

Posted: 5/3/2011 4:54:29 AM EDT

[#19]

15 spaces and any letter will apparently take 5 million years

Posted: 5/3/2011 4:55:10 AM EDT

[#20]

8 seconds.

Posted: 5/3/2011 4:56:16 AM EDT

[#21]

I have no idea...... and I'm not going to put it into an unknown site asking me for my password to find out.

Posted: 5/3/2011 4:58:52 AM EDT

[#22]

According to that:

Arfcom - .004 seconds.

E-mail and Facebook - 778 Thousand Years.

Posted: 5/3/2011 5:01:15 AM EDT

[#23]

It would take

About 127 trillion years

for a desktop PC to crack your password

16 characters.

My other password is rated 16 years.

Posted: 5/3/2011 5:02:08 AM EDT

[#24]

About a second.

It literally said that.

Posted: 5/3/2011 5:02:14 AM EDT

[#25]

i noticed that length is the most important factor.

As I put in an email password I use, it said 5 minutes. I added " 4me" and it jumped to 16 years. Then I added "andyou" and it jumped to a billion years or something like that.

After about 8 characters, it starts to exponentially get harder to crack...though this seems logical to me. I may have to update all passwords with 10 characters or so...

Posted: 5/3/2011 5:03:49 AM EDT

[#26]

wait, so you post a link on arfcom for people to type their arfcom account password into?

Posted: 5/3/2011 5:05:34 AM EDT

[#27]

717 quattuorvigintillion years... not really sure how long that really is...

Posted: 5/3/2011 5:06:06 AM EDT

[#28]

So I go to your website, I punch in my password and the computer tells me how secure it is.

Hmmmmmmm, something seems phishy.

ETA: I tried a generic in the same format as my typical password 301 Million Years

Posted: 5/3/2011 5:06:30 AM EDT

[#29]

well, my original one was 8 seconds.

I just changed it to one that said 16 years.

Posted: 5/3/2011 5:07:13 AM EDT

[#30]

My Arfcom password would take 4 hours

My bank stuff would take about 4 days

My shop computer would take "about a billion years"

Posted: 5/3/2011 5:07:25 AM EDT

[#31]

About 24 thousand years

Posted: 5/3/2011 5:07:33 AM EDT

[#32]

My truecrypt password would take...

"About 22 septillion years"

(which is 22 x 10^24 years)

Posted: 5/3/2011 5:08:59 AM EDT

[#33]

12345

One of the 500 most common passwords

crap

Posted: 5/3/2011 5:11:00 AM EDT

[#34]

53K years

Posted: 5/3/2011 5:11:51 AM EDT

[#35]

Quoted:

169 days, it's a long string of random letters and numbers, do I need the entire alphabit and pi?

Posted: 5/3/2011 5:12:21 AM EDT

[#36]

It would take

About 714 quadrillion years

for a desktop PC to crack your password

Posted: 5/3/2011 5:12:38 AM EDT

[#37]

Wifi p/w for the network I'm on in Spain is 3 septillion years. 26 characters, including 6 letters.

Posted: 5/3/2011 5:12:54 AM EDT

[#38]

Quoted:
wait, so you post a link on arfcom for people to type their arfcom account password into?

only an idiot would enter their actual password but you can still use the tool by creating a pattern that is similar

lets say my password is P@$sW0&d you could map that to *Lg&g(9M and the score is the same 46 days... btw putting a space in either of these increases it from 46 days to 9 years... and putting " ~`" (space ~ `) increases it to 53 thousand years...

Posted: 5/3/2011 5:13:59 AM EDT

[#39]

Thirteen minutes.

Posted: 5/3/2011 5:14:00 AM EDT

[#40]

87 days !

Posted: 5/3/2011 5:14:11 AM EDT

[#41]

How long would it take for someone to crack your bank account #? Go to this web site to enter it and see...

Posted: 5/3/2011 5:14:14 AM EDT

[#42]

Quoted:

Quoted:

wait, so you post a link on arfcom for people to type their arfcom account password into?

only an idiot would enter their actual password but you can still use the tool by creating a pattern that is similar

lets say my password is P@$sW0&d you could map that to *Lg&g(9M and the score is the same 46 days... btw putting a space in either of these increases it from 46 days to 9 years... and putting " ~`" (space ~ `) increases it to 53 thousand years...

Ok, now start a thread with a poll:

How many of you typed your actual password in?

Posted: 5/3/2011 5:15:11 AM EDT

[#43]

Quoted:
So let me get this straight. You want me to type my passwords into a text box on a random website?

What could possibly go wrong?

Posted: 5/3/2011 5:15:14 AM EDT

[#44]

Quoted:

Quoted:
wait, so you post a link on arfcom for people to type their arfcom account password into?

only an idiot would enter their actual password but you can still use the tool by creating a pattern that is similar

lets say my password is P@$sW0&d you could map that to *Lg&g(9M and the score is the same 46 days... btw putting a space in either of these increases it from 46 days to 9 years... and putting " ~`" (space ~ `) increases it to 53 thousand years...

Ok, now start a thread with a poll:

How many of you typed your actual password in?

how many idiots are out there

Posted: 5/3/2011 5:17:06 AM EDT

[#45]

I typed mine in, I'm not scared.

Posted: 5/3/2011 5:20:56 AM EDT

[#46]

Tag

Posted: 5/3/2011 5:21:19 AM EDT

[#47]

12 decillion years

Posted: 5/3/2011 5:21:41 AM EDT

[#48]

All you need is 1% to be stupid and you can steal a shit ton of information. Do stupid people make up more than
1% of the population? You be the judge.