Daily Archives: July 19, 2010

Wow… How quickly can your password be cracked?

I thought that this article was very interesting. I know that my passwords are not so strong, but this was a good article on password security and strength, and I thought to share: Mike on ghacks has posted an interesting introduction to password strength. You may think your password is strong, but the range of times required to crack passwords of different types goes from essentially instantaneous (for any 3-character password, e.g. 3D%) to several years for an 8-character password … Continue reading