{"id":484,"date":"2009-06-30T15:49:57","date_gmt":"2009-06-30T10:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qadit.com\/blog\/?p=484"},"modified":"2009-06-30T17:03:02","modified_gmt":"2009-06-30T11:33:02","slug":"how-to-secure-your-password","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/how-to-secure-your-password\/","title":{"rendered":"How secure is your password?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span>Information Security experts recommend that password length should be minimum 8 characters and should have a mix of alphabets (lower and upper case), numerals and special characters. What happens if a user has a password of a lower strength? In this article, you can check how strong your password is.<!--more--><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span>The table below shows the maximum time required for a fast dual processor PC to guess passwords and recover the right password using a simple brute force \u201ckey-search\u201d attack, for various lengths and complexities of passwords:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-483\" src=\"https:\/\/www.qadit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/password-strength.bmp\" alt=\"Password Strength\" width=\"748\" height=\"582\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span>It should be noted that we have assumed only a fast dual core processor PC is being used for cracking the password. However, if supercomputers are used for cracking the password, a 7 character (common symbols +numerals + alphabets \u2013both upper and lower case) password can be cracked in 20 hours and a similar complexity password with 8 characters can be cracked in 83.5 days.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span>Now, there is a compelling reason for you to use an 8 character password with a mix of special characters, numerals and alphabets with a mix of upper and lower case. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Information Security experts recommend that password length should be minimum 8 characters and should have a mix of alphabets (lower and upper case), numerals and special characters. What happens if a user has a password of a lower strength? In this article, you can check how strong your password is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[51,63,29],"class_list":["post-484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-itsec","tag-information-security","tag-password-security","tag-qadit"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9AH7Q-7O","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}