Exercise 3
Check the security of your own passwords. At the following link, algorithms estimate how long a brute-force attack would take to crack a password: https://www.passwortcheck.ch.
Additional Task (Optional):
Test the password security algorithm by entering the following passwords one by one and observe how the estimated cracking time changes as characters are added.
Input | Input | Input |
macke | macke0811 | macke0811! |
Macke | Macke0811 | Macke0811! |
makke | makke0811 | makke0811! |
Makke | Makke0811 | Makke0811! |
Proposed Solution
Input | Time | Input | Time | Input | Time |
macke | less than 1 sec | macke0811 | less than 1 sec | macke0811! | approx.18 min |
Macke | less than 1 sec | Macke0811 | less than 1 sec | Macke0811! | approx. 18 min |
makke | less than 1 sec | makke0811 | approx. 17 min | makke0811! | approx. 2 years |
Makke | less than 1 sec | Makke0811 | approx. 2 days | Makke0811! | approx. 39 years |