Senin, 22 Oktober 2012

How fast your password be cracked?

Follow hacking that afflicts millions of LinkedIn users and eHarmony.com make people aware of the importance of making passwords difficult to guess.
The easiest way to meningkatkanpassword is to increase the number of letters and numbers and insert special symbols or non-letter characters such as @,%, ^, &, or *, especially those rarely used.
The longer the password, and more and more of his character, the hackers who intend no good will be harder to break into a person's online account.
This is because the Latin alphabet only has 26 characters, while a standard keyboard has 95 letters and symbols that can be used to make a difficult combination.
How difficult to guess passwords that contain special characters?
Here are a number of possible combinations of passwords along six and ten characters (including letters and numbers, not including upper and lower case), passed denganpassword six and ten characters that added a special symbol.
The figures below obtained from Brute Force Password Interactive Search Space Calculator, as quoted by PC World:
Password 6 characters with no special symbols: 2.25 billion possible combinations

    
The time it takes to hack passwords online with web applications that can make a thousand guesses per second: 3.7 weeks.
    
The time it takes to hack passwords offline with computer ataudesktop high-performance servers that can make a hundred billion guesses per second: 0.0224 seconds.

Password is 10 characters with no special symbols: 3.76 quadrillion (3.76 million billion) possible combinations

    
The time it takes to hack passwords online with web applications that can make a thousand guesses per second: 3.7 weeks.
    
The time it takes to hack passwords offline with computer ataudesktop high-performance servers that can make a hundred billion guesses per second: 10.45 hours.

One additional symbol will add the amounts likely over many times:
Password 6 characters with special symbols: 7.6 trillion possible combinations

    
The time it takes to hack passwords online with web applications that can make a thousand guesses per second: 2.4 abad/240 year.
    
The time it takes to hack passwords offline with computer ataudesktop high-performance servers that can make a hundred billion guesses per second: 1.26 min.

10 character passwords with special symbols: 171.3 xextillion (171.269.557.687.901.638.419) possible combinations

    
The time it takes to hack passwords online with web applications that can make a thousand guesses per second: 54.46 million Century / 5 billion 446 million years.
    
The time it takes to hack passwords offline with computer ataudesktop high-performance servers that can make a hundred billion guesses per second: 54.46 years.

In addition to increasing the number of possible combinations, the use of special symbols dalampassword useful to avoid "dictionary attack", that is, using words taken directly from the dictionary. For maximum security, the password must be at least 10 letters and numbers, as well as one or more special symbols.

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