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How secure is your password? Who wins?!

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"g0t0h3lly0ua$$hol3"

t would take About 336 trillion years for a desktop PC to crack your password 🙂
 
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10days on a 8 character 4digits 4letters with a random cap.

Seems to really favor more characters. "thisismypassword" is 5million years.

Adding the word 'password' to the end of mine changed it from 10days to 6trillion years.

edit: old password no longer used
 
4 days for my standard use most non-important places.
12 days for my important password.

I changed various characters to protect my real password. It's not that hard morons.
 
.4 seconds for my weakest
.6 seconds for another one
495 years for my most commonly used
952 years for one I recently started using

What gets me, the 952 years does not have any symbols or numbers in it.

The 495 has a combination of letters, symbol and numbers.

Why does a combination of all three score less then just letters? I have to call BS on that one.
 
If you type in abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz it says it would take 780 quintillion years. Not that I use that as my password, way too long and not nearly as secure as its length would imply.
 
About 5 nonillion years for one like my strongest password.

Though I just keep stringing together old passwords to make new passwords. So they're really long now.

Also, portions are pulled from a random alphanumeric matrix that I use in conjunction with a simple, but entirely custom algorithm for generating new passwords.
 
I'm not paranoid and this website is probably safe as they claim.

But, it would be REALLY simple to just log your IP along with your password.

And then they'd have an ip with a password that goes to ?

They'd have just as much luck randomly hitting ip address, then figuring out what kind of system they were dealing with.

All that said, I didn't put in my real password :^D
 
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