Oct 31 2008

How Long To Figure Out Your Password?

Jody posted this at 10:29 am under internet & computers

Password Brute Force Calculator provides an estimate on how long a computer would take to figure out (i.e. crack).

Your password is 13 characters long and has 367,034,448,698,777,600 combinations.
It takes 7,121,405.58 hours or 296,725.23 days to crack your password on computer that tries 25,769,803,776 passwords per hour.

Try your bank PIN!

(via LifeHacker)


2 Responses to “How Long To Figure Out Your Password?”. Leave a Reply.

  1. Steveon 31 Oct 2008 at 11:36 am

    Hmmm, but that’s supposing it finds your password on the very last possible combination of characters that it was going to try. There’s actually a 50% chance that it would only take half as long. Still… 150,000 days is still a pretty darn long time.

    BTW… the link doesn’t work for me.

  2. Jodyon 31 Oct 2008 at 11:37 am

    > the link doesn’t work for me.

    They’re being bombarded; its heavy traffic is making their site unresponsive now.

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