How Big is Your Haystack?

from
https://www.grc.com/haystack.htm
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This interactive brute force search space calculator allows you to experiment with password length and composition to develop an accurate and quantified sense for the safety of using passwords that can only be found through exhaustive search. Please see the discussion below for additional information.
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interesting and fun

 

Hi
Yep, most definitely.Thank you for sharing

 

tnx for the heads-up.
this comes just in times because i have been thinking about this stuff lately.

it shows that a password can be both very secure and easy to remember at the same times.

truly, it would seem that it's not only the size of your haystack that matters but how you use it as well!

 

I've been thinking about a little re-implementation of my password arrangement too, mainly how to make it more convenient to use.

Going by the results that page shows for massive cracking array scenario, one of my standard, easy to remember phrases would require
14.67 trillion centuries to crack, so I guess changing the setup isn't too urgent.

A random cut and paste from one of my "source files" would require 3.36 thousand trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion centuries.

Too bad it can't accept multiple lines for pass phrases. I would have been interested to see what crazy number it came up with for one of my encrypted partitions.

 

The password 'strength' thing on there isn't meant to be accurate, really. As they say the d0g password is the harder one to crack but it loses points because of "entropy" on any password meter.

 

I've been using "visual" ways to remember passwords.
What I do is imagine a pattern on a keyboard. Say every second key in the first row, every third in a second, then repeat first row with Shift. Or a checkers, or a rectangle, diagonal lines pattern, there are many possibilities. That way I can use very complex passwords without actually having to remember them.