Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Calculate the Time Needed to Crack your Password

Calculate the Time Needed to Crack your Password
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Want to the calculate the time needed for an average PC to crack your password? Checkout some online tools which will check the strength of a password and tell how much time it takes for a hacker to crack it.

How Secure is my Password:
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http://howsecureismypassword.net/

How Secure is my Password Online tool will tell you how long it would take an average computer to crack your password using brute force method.

As per this site, it would take a hacker 98 Days to crack my Google account password. Good enough, eh?

Password Meter:
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http://www.passwordmeter.com/

Password meter shows how strong your password is based on variety of parameters like number of characters, symbols, upper cases, consecutiveness, sequences etc.

More complex the password is, more points you get. And for every repeating and consecutive chars, you obviously get deductions.

Microsoft Password strength checker:
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https://www.microsoft.com/security/pc-security/password-checker.aspx

Microsoft Password strength checker tool from Microsoft just calculates the strength of your password and classifies them as weak, medium, strong and best.

Note: The online tools mentioned above calculates the strength of the password you enter within your computer and is not send over the internet.
 
 
 

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