why your password sucks
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We told you a great password is..
• 8 Characters Long.• Has a few symbols.• Has uppercase letters.• Has lowercase letters.• Has a number in it.
We told you a great password isn't…
• A word in the dictionary.• Your dogs name.• Your kids names.• Your favorite sports team. • Anything easy to remember
The truth is they suck…
• 2K1ds@hm– Can be cracked in 1.12
Minutes• <3Truman– Can be cracked in 1.22
Minutes
All times taken from https://www.grc.com/haystack
Why did we lie to you?
• 5 years ago brute forcing passwords was nearly impossible.
• If your password wasn’t in the dictionary you were pretty safe.
Then along came Amazon
• $1.60 an hour I can have the power of 8 3.0 GHZ server at my disposal. – Can processes a billion passwords
attempts second.
Rules for a good passphrase
• At least 15 characters long.– The longer the better.• “That’s what she said?”
• Use whatever words you want.• Make it easy to remember.
That passphrase is…
• 21 characters long• It would take 1.06 hundred thousand trillion centuries to brute force using an Amazon cluster.