And you have more than one password right? If you don’t, you should…seriously…good security starts with good passwords that you change regularly.
Today, I came across a site that will demonstrate how weak or strong your password based on the average time it would take to crack your password. It will either scare the heck out of you or it will make you feel good about your choice of passwords. The site is: How Secure is My Password.
Remember that non-English words with a mixture of case and the addition of numerals and special characters totaling a minimum of 8 characters make the best passwords. After creating a good password, it is essential that you remember them, and I have an entire article devoted to that right here at HelpMeRick.com. Click here to read that article.
According to this site, one of the passwords I used would take 38 billion years to crack. How strong are your passwords? Leave a comment below letting me know the strength of your password (not the password though, please).
7 billion years! Thanks for the link, glad to know I’m on the right track!
That’s a great one!
417 years for one of them!! Not so good on another… I must change it! Thanks for the tip!
Not bat at all…also for all of us, we need to remember to rotate or change passwords periodically as well.
My favorite password would take several weeks, the other, which is a foreign name, would take thirteen minutes.
Yikes…those aren’t very secure. Better start looking for new ones and write them down. 😉
Your article has spurred me on to get really serious and organized with my passwords and other info that needs to be secure. Am using LastPass and am getting all the info entered. Am upgrading the less secure passwords using the embedded password generator. Will then generate as secure LastPass master passphrase using the method at the Diceware Passphrase Home Page every three months. Have also activated the highest level of security in LastPass including the authentication grid for unknown computers. Have exported all the info and printed it in case of disaster on the LastPass end. The LastPass master passphrase is in my safe in case something happens to me and my wife needs to start accessing these accounts and information. What am I leaving out?
Excellent comment and something I wish more users would take advantage of…the great and secure tools available for remembering and maintaining the plethora of passwords we have today!
One of my many passwords was 19 billion years…a couple of others were 30 minutes. I must get busy and change those. Thanks much for this website.
OMG – I just tried another one – and it said “a quadrillion”…I think that’s pretty secure.
Mine crack in 2 hours… but found one that it says would take 100 million years to crack. Many thanks for this tip!
412 Trillion Years! Seems legit. Thanks for the link. I’ll pass it around.
Thanks for this site! I have been checking all my passwords, as well as my clients. But, someone asked me the question – how safe is this site because there is no security information upfront or when you add your password?
A trillion years, pretty good.
The one I tried that is most like one of my usual ones took 4 weeks. My newest password took 4 billion years. How do we know that testing our passwords on that site is a safe thing to do, btw?
Great job increasing your password complexity to 4 billion years from 4 weeks!! As to your second question, we never really know what is safe, and what isn’t, but we watch for clues. In this case, the site is run by a password manager/security company. Secondly, we don’t give them any identifying information. If it asked for our email address or name, we wouldn’t use it and find other means. Thanks for the comment!! Please keep stopping by and refer the site to your friends and family!
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