PCG Article How long would it take an AI to crack your password?

[Zed Clampet]

Here's a PCG article about an AI that can crack most 4-7 character passwords in seconds.

The article includes a link to the cybersecurity company's webpage where you can type in a password and see how long it would take AI to figure it out. In the picture below, I typed a password in that is equivalent, but not the same, to my most important password, Google. Two-factor authentication makes my email password critical.

One trillion years. I'll have to remember to change it before then.

So how long would it take an AI to crack your passwords?

 

[Pifanjr]

That doesn't sound significantly better than previous numbers I've seen for hacking passwords.

It would take longer than a day to crack the simplest passwords I use and more than a year for the more advanced ones.

I tried LastPass once but then forgot the master password.

 

[Slasken]

"Come people, type your password here to see how safe it is"
-yeah, I'll pass, no pun intended.

I have two factor protection on everything, including my email account.

 

[Zed Clampet]

"Come people, type your password here to see how safe it is"
-yeah, I'll pass, no pun intended.

I have two factor protection on everything, including my email account.

Same. And that's why I didn't type my actual password, just one of with the same format.

 

[Brian Boru]

30 thousand years

I'll have to remember to change it before then

Yeah, that's a drag. Let's get 2FA going—I'll remind you if you remind me

 

[Colif]

Quantum computers, meanwhile, can break the keys that are used for encryption, so I expect a password would be childsplay to them.

Nothing is safe

 

[Brian Boru]

Quantum computers, meanwhile, can break the keys that are used for encryption, so I expect a password would be childsplay to them

Passwords should be long obsolete by the time quantums are generally available.

 

[SBA]

However, if you are referring to how long it would take for an AI to crack a password set by a user, it depends on several factors, including the strength of the password and the capabilities of the AI, used for the cracking attempt.
Password strength is determined by the length, complexity, and randomness of the characters used. Longer passwords with a mix of uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers, and special characters are generally considered stronger. On the other hand, shorter passwords or those that are easily guessable, such as common words or simple patterns, are weaker and can be cracked more easily.

 

[mjs warlord]

Some sites that require you to set a password actually place restrictions on the characters you can use such as NO symbols , if these were allowed it would be like adding extra letters to the alphabet thus increasing the number of possible combinations.

The person who will do the most damage to you is a casual friend who you did not see looking at what your typing. One of my pals had a geek gaming weekend at his home and during that time somebody found his list of passwords for games and other stuff. He only found out what had happened when a few days latter he went to use his printer and the scanned password sheet had been left in the printer by the person who used it.

Over the years i have seen the following question on lots of forums ..... i forgot my password .... obviously nobody answers the question.

Their is something you can type into the run box to stop windows asking you for your microsoft password before you get to the desktop but of course you need to know the password before you can get to desktop to do it.

 

[stormluisss]

"Come people, type your password here to see how safe it is"
-yeah, I'll pass, no pun intended.

I have two factor protection on everything, including my email account.

It’s like the old quizzes on VK like “take the test and find out what your totem animal is,” where they may ask for your name, the name of your pet, your and your family’s date of birth. And then all this can be used by scammers to hack your personal data or bank card. After all, even the name of a pet can be your password somewhere. That's why it's better not to fall for such things.

 

[Sore But Whole]

I use NordPass for password storage and generation, and I use a 60 character (their max) password with a combination of letters, numbers, symbols, etc. Some places don't accept that many characters, so I go down to whatever their maximum is, usually 15-30. 2FA is also valuable and I use it where I can, but I have had 2FA accounts with weak passwords hijacked from me in the past.

 

[IronDeniskach]

My password is the same almost everywhere, but I still manage to forget it. And looking at all the comments in this trend, I’m starting to think that it’s time to protect my accounts more.

 

[Rolfil]

My important ones are 25 characters long and I use bitwarden to generate completely random 25 character passwords.

Important stuff always uses 2FA already and I'll probably start using passkey's when they are more widely rolled out.