Here Are The Possibility's For Different Password Lengths.
This Includes Every Key On An Average Keyboard
so a - z And A - Z
Also 0 - 9 and , < . > / \ ' : ; } { + =] [ ] -_ `~ ? " |
K = 1,000
M = 1,000,000
B = 1,000,000,000
T = 1,000,000,000,000
Z = 1,000,000,000,000,000
1 Key Long = 85
2 Keys Long = 7225 Or 7.2 K
3 Keys Long = 614125 Or 614 K
4 Keys Long = 52200625 Or 52.2 M
5 Keys Long = 4437053125 Or 4.4 B
6 Keys Long = 377149515625 Or 377 B
7 Keys Long = 32057708828125 Or 32 T
8 Keys Long = 2724905250390625 Or 2.7 Z
For Average Password Websites Like Minecraft Forums
Where a -z and A -z Including 0 - 9 are only Allowed
1 Key Long = 62
2 Keys Long = 3844 Or 3.8 K
3 Keys Long = 238328 Or 238 K
4 Keys Long = 14776336 Or 14.7 M
5 Keys Long = 916132832 Or 916 M
6 Keys Long = 56800235584 Or 56.8 B
7 Keys Long = 1476806125184 Or 1.4 T
8 Keys Long = 91561979761408 Or 91.5 T
9 Keys Long = 5676842745207296 5.6 Z
They won't guess it, they'll use a program to find it out.
Most likely a dictionary hacker. But these use the dictionary and real words, and therefore wouldn't be able to hack nonsense passwords. For example, "banananawierdd" could not be hacked because they do not use real words. Of course, don't change your password to something like 00000, that is an obvious password.
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I once heard someone say you could fight off the Ender Dragon with sticks. He was the smartest person I have ever met.
Here Are The Possibility's For Different Password Lengths.
This Includes Every Key On An Average Keyboard
so a - z And A - Z
Also 0 - 9 and , < . > / \ ' : ; } { + =] [ ] -_ `~ ? " |
K = 1,000
M = 1,000,000
B = 1,000,000,000
T = 1,000,000,000,000
Z = 1,000,000,000,000,000
1 Key Long = 85
2 Keys Long = 7225 Or 7.2 K
3 Keys Long = 614125 Or 614 K
4 Keys Long = 52200625 Or 52.2 M
5 Keys Long = 4437053125 Or 4.4 B
6 Keys Long = 377149515625 Or 377 B
7 Keys Long = 32057708828125 Or 32 T
8 Keys Long = 2724905250390625 Or 2.7 Z
For Average Password Websites Like Minecraft Forums
Where a -z and A -z Including 0 - 9 are only Allowed
1 Key Long = 62
2 Keys Long = 3844 Or 3.8 K
3 Keys Long = 238328 Or 238 K
4 Keys Long = 14776336 Or 14.7 M
5 Keys Long = 916132832 Or 916 M
6 Keys Long = 56800235584 Or 56.8 B
7 Keys Long = 1476806125184 Or 1.4 T
8 Keys Long = 91561979761408 Or 91.5 T
9 Keys Long = 5676842745207296 5.6 Z
Specail Thanks To My Calculator
Of course the problem here is that humans don't pick uniformly random passwords. A completely random password is difficult to remember, which makes it very secure, but generally a bad password because you want to remember it. It's not impossible to memorize a long, random password, but it is difficult.
So people are far more likely to pick something that has some kind of meaning. Usually the password will be pronounceable in some way, so the letters will form phonemes. Very frequently they'll contain words. If there's numbers in the password those, too, will not usually be random. By a wide margin any numbers in a password will be the user's birthday or some other significant date expressed as 2-4 digits.
This reduces the search space for passwords quite drastically and pretty much makes your analysis totally wrong.
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Hacks in many cases don't just try to "guess" a password either. Passwords are typically encoded with a hash and if you use the same password as someone else who has had their hash compromised and brute forced before, they instantly know what your password was no matter how long it is.
You could use This to see how secure your password is.
I really don't want to get infracted for bumping, but that site is VERY inaccurate. It says that it would take a computer years to crack a password that's just a bunch of dots.
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A test to see what number is most thought of when a 1-10 choice is given: strawpoll.me/4012187
Don't think about it, just click on the first one that comes to you!
Hackers don't guess a password. They can use either a keyboard attack, a man-in-the-middle attack, a dictionary attack, a brute force attack, a social engineering attack, a keylogger, or a phishing site, but they won't guess it themselves.
The best way to have a secure password is to have four random words. "estimatetrainduringfarm" has ~44 bits of entropy, 244 = ~550 years of guessing 1000 times per second before it gets it right, where as a password like "$Abs1nth14l9", while at first it looks secure, only has ~23 bits of entropy. 223 = ~3 days of guessing 1000 times per second before it gets it right.
1. 1,000 passwords per second is so slow it is not funny most computer that have decent specs get closer to couple million passwords per second.
This Includes Every Key On An Average Keyboard
so a - z And A - Z
Also 0 - 9 and , < . > / \ ' : ; } { + =] [ ] -_ `~ ? " |
K = 1,000
M = 1,000,000
B = 1,000,000,000
T = 1,000,000,000,000
Z = 1,000,000,000,000,000
1 Key Long = 85
2 Keys Long = 7225 Or 7.2 K
3 Keys Long = 614125 Or 614 K
4 Keys Long = 52200625 Or 52.2 M
5 Keys Long = 4437053125 Or 4.4 B
6 Keys Long = 377149515625 Or 377 B
7 Keys Long = 32057708828125 Or 32 T
8 Keys Long = 2724905250390625 Or 2.7 Z
For Average Password Websites Like Minecraft Forums
Where a -z and A -z Including 0 - 9 are only Allowed
1 Key Long = 62
2 Keys Long = 3844 Or 3.8 K
3 Keys Long = 238328 Or 238 K
4 Keys Long = 14776336 Or 14.7 M
5 Keys Long = 916132832 Or 916 M
6 Keys Long = 56800235584 Or 56.8 B
7 Keys Long = 1476806125184 Or 1.4 T
8 Keys Long = 91561979761408 Or 91.5 T
9 Keys Long = 5676842745207296 5.6 Z
Specail Thanks To My Calculator
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Most likely a dictionary hacker. But these use the dictionary and real words, and therefore wouldn't be able to hack nonsense passwords. For example, "banananawierdd" could not be hacked because they do not use real words. Of course, don't change your password to something like 00000, that is an obvious password.
I once heard someone say you could fight off the Ender Dragon with sticks. He was the smartest person I have ever met.
Of course it does, "banana" and "weird".
It includes an extra "na" and "d".
I once heard someone say you could fight off the Ender Dragon with sticks. He was the smartest person I have ever met.
Of course the problem here is that humans don't pick uniformly random passwords. A completely random password is difficult to remember, which makes it very secure, but generally a bad password because you want to remember it. It's not impossible to memorize a long, random password, but it is difficult.
So people are far more likely to pick something that has some kind of meaning. Usually the password will be pronounceable in some way, so the letters will form phonemes. Very frequently they'll contain words. If there's numbers in the password those, too, will not usually be random. By a wide margin any numbers in a password will be the user's birthday or some other significant date expressed as 2-4 digits.
This reduces the search space for passwords quite drastically and pretty much makes your analysis totally wrong.
You could use This to see how secure your password is.
That's exactly what I remembered when I saw this topic.
There's some discussion about it.
Some links to assist that comic:
http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/6095/xkcd-936-short-complex-password-or-long-dictionary-passphrase
http://ask.metafilter.com/193052/Oh-Randall-you-do-confound-me-so#2779020
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I really don't want to get infracted for bumping, but that site is VERY inaccurate. It says that it would take a computer years to crack a password that's just a bunch of dots.
If I helped in any way, feel free to drop me an Internet:
Or some Blue XP:
A test to see what number is most thought of when a 1-10 choice is given: strawpoll.me/4012187
Don't think about it, just click on the first one that comes to you!
1. 1,000 passwords per second is so slow it is not funny most computer that have decent specs get closer to couple million passwords per second.