Friday, November 28, 2008

CALCULATING PASSWRD STRENGTH

One of security steps (among many) you can do for yourself on the internet, is frequent password rotation and strong password creation. 

How should my password look like, what characters, signs?
What length is sufficient?
How often should one change his password?

These are common questions among non-technical users. The answer might give you "Brute force calculator" from Hackosis.com.

What it basically do is answering all above questions!

You just have to enter required parameters in their form and you get information in format
One of security steps (among many) you can do for yourself on the internet, is frequent password rotation and strong password creation. 

How should my password look like, what characters, signs?
What length is sufficient?
How often should one change his password?

These are common questions among non-technical users. The answer might give you "Brute force calculator" from Hackosis.com.

What it basically do is answering all above questions!

You just have to enter required parameters in their form and you get information in format

Your password is X characters long and has X combinations.
It takes 
X hours or X days to crack your password on computer that tries 137,438,953,472 passwords per hour. This is based on a typical PC processor in 2008 and that the processor is under 10% load.




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