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How secure is your password? - Printable Version +- Sinisterly (https://sinister.ly) +-- Forum: Computers (https://sinister.ly/Forum-Computers) +--- Forum: Antivirus & Protection (https://sinister.ly/Forum-Antivirus-Protection) +--- Thread: How secure is your password? (/Thread-How-secure-is-your-password--63224) |
How secure is your password? - Master - 10-19-2015 I was reading this article on lifehacker about methods creating secure password, and decides to check how secure my passwords on this website. First password ![]() Second password ![]() (not real passwords) If you're curious whether your chosen password is secure or not, you can run it here. RE: How secure is your password? - ida - 10-19-2015 Spoiler:![]() oh boy i sure hope nobody hacks me RE: How secure is your password? - Ion - 10-21-2015 I use passwords of completely pseudo-random characters. All of my passwords use the maximum accepted character limit of the website, and can usually be something similar to "%$GEBrtudb&YVBH)%$^YV$%Vyhg643". I store all of them on an encrypted flash drive, and the crypto key is hidden somewhere very clever in my house. RE: How secure is your password? - XFL - 10-21-2015 Won't share anything regarding my password; but it says with a PC It would take about 48 billion years to bruteforce and with medium botnet, 24 million years. /humblebrag RE: How secure is your password? - XFL - 10-21-2015 (10-21-2015, 02:07 AM)username1 Wrote: Good job, bet it was really hard to create a complicated password. It was as hard as creating a complicated password as it was for you to pick a username. RE: How secure is your password? - username1 - 10-21-2015 (10-21-2015, 02:08 AM)XFL Wrote: It was as hard as creating a complicated password as it was for you to pick a username. Glad you got the joke.. Has anyone ever considered using Unicode characters in their passwords? Guarantee they will never get cracked.
RE: How secure is your password? - XFL - 10-21-2015 (10-21-2015, 02:12 AM)username1 Wrote: -snip- You would have to have a keyboard or a method that you could use to insert that password. Can you put those characters inside of a encoder? base64 that shit and you'll be good until the sun explodes. RE: How secure is your password? - username1 - 10-21-2015 (10-21-2015, 02:14 AM)XFL Wrote: You would have to have a keyboard or a method that you could use to insert that password. Yeah because who uses google translate these days? Buying a whole different keyboard is better. RE: How secure is your password? - Oni - 10-21-2015 I already know it's 100% for all of my passwords. RE: How secure is your password? - Nil - 10-21-2015 Some of my older passwords range from 0 seconds to 13 minutes. So if any of ya'll have some free time I may have a few accounts for jacking |