Re: find out how secure your
By: Digital Man to Matt Munson on Thu Mar 10 2011 04:08 pm

Re: find out how secure your password is here
By: Matt Munson to All on Sun Mar 06 2011 07:32 pm

Hello everybody.

http://howsecureismypassword.net/

What if they're logging the passwords and IPs?

Feel free to check out the code. It's pretty simple javascript, it runs client-side, and nothing is sent to the server.

It's an interesting site. My most secure password would take 10 days to
crack (that's the one I use for securing my PC, banking, etc). The least secure password I use (which is not in the dictionary; I'm not that stupid)
for general sites apparently would only take about a second to crack.


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Re: find out how secure your
By: Fargo to Morden on Wed Mar 16 2011 09:43 am

Re: find out how secure your password is here
By: Morden to thinktank on Fri Mar 11 2011 06:39 am

Maybe they're building a dictionary? Haha. Either way, I'd never input my

Yeah, that's probably what they are up to :)
also, they should check the password against a good wordlist.

Otherwise the whole check is kinda unuseful.

Look at the sourcecode. There's a small dictionary included... the most commonly used by clueless users.

Otherwise, it's simply a check of how long it would take to hash crack the password. In other words, if it's an average alphanumeric password of 7-8 characters, it would take almost no time at all. However, a longer password with nonalphanumeric characters included dramatically increases the time to break.

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