The Perfect Password
We should all be using 12-character password now according to a report published this week by the Georgia Institute of Technology. Researchers at the institute modified computer graphics cards to attempt to break passwords. Here’s the scoop on the results:
8 Character Password = 2 hours to break.
11 Character Password = Approximately 180 years to break.
12 Character Password = Approximately 17,134 years to break.
How long is your current password you use for email? Your system at work? Bank? Credit Card? Facebook?
These estimates include the use of special characters (e.g. $, %, !, *, <). If you don’t use this, slash those estimates, by a lot.
Researchers recommend using full sentences. My security professor from college used to recommend phrases from the old finish language, which had some words with so many conjugation possibilities that it made any password almost impossible to break. Next time you log in to whatever online, think “what if this account were compromised? How would this affect my life?” You may now go and change those passwords.
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