From the course: Learning Cryptography and Network Security
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Solution: Password strength tests
From the course: Learning Cryptography and Network Security
Solution: Password strength tests
(upbeat music) - [Narrator] Okay. How did you do? Well, let's just try out those passwords I asked you to evaluate. We'll try the first one. Oh boy, three hours. So, not too good, huh? All right, let's try the second variation on pool ball. Oh, okay. Well that would take a week. Well, now let's just try orange tiger kittens. Wow, cute and functional. It would take a computer about 23 million years to crack your password. So as you can see, length beats complexity. Even still, it's a good idea to change your password periodically, because over the last several years billions of passwords have been stolen. Let's take a look. I'm at this website, World's Biggest Data Breaches. And I want to just scroll down here. Here is just losses over 30,000 records. And if you lay your cursor on it, it will blow it up so you can see it a little bit better. And some really significant numbers in here. But really what I…
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