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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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