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Colin B
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March 16, 2015 - 1:22 am
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I posted this somewhere in the Forum but I thought it might be better here.

Password checkers such as https://howsecureismypassword.net/ are very odd!!
They do not seem to take into consideration the simple keyboards that we use. The qwerty ones.

I would have thought that a password comprising a progressive set of keys pressed one after another along the keyboard would be weak.???
Try this using the bottom keys:
zxcvbnm,./

98 days to crack!

And if you then reverse back again a few keys:

zxcvbnm,./.,

Then it’s 546 years.

This combination of key presses would take most hackers less than one minute to crack.

I wonder why these “test your password” sites don’t realise that?

Who would use : qwertyuiop[] as a password?
Well it’s very safe.
Oh yes, using these keys is a 546 year task to hack?
I don’t think so.

TechnoMage
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May 8, 2016 - 2:15 pm
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You're absolutely correct. The password checkers don't take into account, human intuition and ingenuity. They take just one character at a time and never see the whole picture.

I took one of those password tests one day with my bank account password and the program said that a decent computer could break my password in just minutes. Yikes!

So using their suggestions of using a long password comprised if special characters, both upper and lower case letters and a few numbers, I came up with a new password that would take the fastest computer on earth, over a million years to crack it. Even if that's an exaggeration, I do feel much safer now.

Good luck with your new password! And don't save it anywhere on your PC.

Cheers mate!
TechnoMage

A man with experience is never at the mercy of a man with an argument.

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