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Check Your Passwords Against Brute Force Attacks [Passwords]
Lifehacker — [image] Ever wonder how long it would take a dedicated soul to bust into your email, home network, or other password-protected places? Enter your character counts into Hackosis' Brute Force Calculator , which crunches how long it would take a brute force cracker to get through. Don't want to share your password stats? Get the count offline with ...

How Long Would it Take to Brute Force Crack Your Password?
Geeknews — Identity Hackosis is hosting a project on their site that will analyze the strength of your password (without entering your PW). Not only that, but the best part is that they’ll clue in to just how easy or difficult it will be to use a brute force crack to solve your PW just using a run of the mill PC. Password Strength Your password is 10 characters long and has 18,429,771,776,000 combinations. It takes 67.05 hours or 2.79 days to crack your password on computer that tries 137,438,953,472 passwords per hour. This is based on a typical PC processor in 2008 and that the processor is under 10% load. OK folks. How strong is ...

How to Test The Strength Of Your Password
Friedbeef's Tech — ... Hackosis has setup a calculator which estimates how fast your password would be cracked if it was run on a typical PC processor under ideal conditions.  Granted that the real world does not run in ideal conditions (with bandwidth limitations etc),but results are nevertheless - pretty scary. ...