From the course: Learning Cryptography and Network Security
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Solution: Password strength tests
From the course: Learning Cryptography and Network Security
Solution: Password strength tests
Okay. Now let's check our work. In this challenge, you were to check a couple of passwords in a lengthier passphrase. So the first thing is, we'll go to this site and then we're going to put in the first variation of p00!b@!!. And then down below it says, "It would take a computer about eight hours to crack your password." Okay. Well, now what about the next version? Well, it's pretty much the same, but in this case, I'll add an E. And now we see that it would take a computer about three weeks to crack your password. Then I wanted you to use a longer passphrase: "orangetigerkittens," no space. And now we see that it would take a computer about 23 million years to crack your password. So, as we can see, length beats complexity. Even still, it's a good idea to change your password periodically and use multi-factor authentication, as over the past few years, billions of passwords have been stolen. Let's take a look. I met this site, World's Biggest Data Breaches and Hacks. And here, we…
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