It turns out that emoticons are considered a symbol, so they can beef up your passwords and make them more secure in combination with letters and numbers. Here’s how.
So those annoying as hell “6 character, lowercase and uppercase letters, special character” passwords give a full 6 minutes of protection. Good to know.
For 6 characters is 5 seconds. I like the idea of using passphrases that mix casing with symbols but still they look like like real words, it make easier to write them down when you need them and they can be very long, so they are quite secure, of course using a password manager to be able to manage them.
If a password can’t be broke in 1,000 years it is utterly unbreakable in any effective sense of the term. No one’s going to run the program for a thousand years because even if they did it wouldn’t be relevant at the end of the process.
Well, the rate passwords can be tested at now may not always be the rate passwords can be tested at later. Computers were, at one point, growing exponentially faster in terms of processing power. There are still several emerging technologies out there that could cause significant speed-ups.
It’s certainly better to future-proof your passwords.
Idk exactly how accurate this is but seems valid
The colors on that are kinda confusing. 6tn years is yellow, but 2k years is green?
It seems like the designer didn’t notice the error
So those annoying as hell “6 character, lowercase and uppercase letters, special character” passwords give a full 6 minutes of protection. Good to know.
For 6 characters is 5 seconds. I like the idea of using passphrases that mix casing with symbols but still they look like like real words, it make easier to write them down when you need them and they can be very long, so they are quite secure, of course using a password manager to be able to manage them.
Damn, even worse than I thought. I wish someone would show this to the people who set those ridiculous password requirements.
I was glad when my work did away with monthly password changes and went with 15 characters minimum as the only requirement.
I wonder if this assumes the cracker knows how long etc the password is when they start cracking.
I always make my passwords “a” because I figure they’ll start cracking attempts at 5 characters 😁
In EVE Online that’s called ‘getting underneath the guns’. 🎓
Why is 1,000 years yellow in that graph?
If a password can’t be broke in 1,000 years it is utterly unbreakable in any effective sense of the term. No one’s going to run the program for a thousand years because even if they did it wouldn’t be relevant at the end of the process.
Hell even 51 years is pushing it.
Well, the rate passwords can be tested at now may not always be the rate passwords can be tested at later. Computers were, at one point, growing exponentially faster in terms of processing power. There are still several emerging technologies out there that could cause significant speed-ups.
It’s certainly better to future-proof your passwords.