Brute Force Calculation Spreadsheet
by admin on 07/11/09 at 1:51 pm
Mandylion Research Labs have published a brute force attack time estimator that predicts how long it would take to crack a password. It’s in Microsoft Excel format and what you should do is enter variations in the numbers of uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers and special characters, to get a feel for how long an evil hacker would probably take to crack your credentials.
This may just give you the incentive to stop using the word “password” as your password!
