For years, people have been warned about using strong passwords and \nbeing told that strong passwords have the following characteristics:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It goes without saying you should NEVER have a password that might relate to your name or the name of a family member.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But there is a website that will tell you exactly how STRONG (or \nweak) your password happens to be. The strength of a password is \nmeasured in entropy<\/strong><\/em>. The higher the entropy, the stronger the password.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Is there a better way? Yes. Use four words<\/strong> that only mean something to you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Example. Chicken Nuggets Tent Farts<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n I went camping with a friend of mine. He ate an entire 20 pack of Chicken Nuggets. I slept outside for obvious reasons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What is the entropy here? 116.4 bits<\/strong>, which is \nincredibly strong. At a 1,000 guesses a SECOND, it would take \n2,634,346,452,833,500,000,000,000 years to guess the password.<\/p>\n\n\n\n That\u2019s 2.6 septillion years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As a frame of reference, the Big Bang event occurred 14 billion years ago and the last dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n XKCD had a comic for this\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For years, people have been warned about using strong passwords and being told that strong passwords have the following characteristics:…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":87,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","wpcat-8-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iheinrich.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iheinrich.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iheinrich.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iheinrich.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iheinrich.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/iheinrich.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91,"href":"https:\/\/iheinrich.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions\/91"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iheinrich.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iheinrich.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iheinrich.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iheinrich.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Password<\/th> Entropy<\/th> Comment<\/th> @1k guess per sec<\/th><\/tr> He1nr1ch$<\/td> 39.9<\/td> Reasonable Strength. But it\u2019s also my name.<\/td> 17 years<\/td><\/tr> Fleaswtracenlant<\/td> 72.8<\/td> Strong. But it\u2019s also the name of my \u2018A\u2019 School in the Navy.<\/td> 149.7 BILLION years<\/td><\/tr> Trump_8==><\/td> 42.9<\/td> Reasonable, and reflects a political opinion.<\/td> 140 years<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\n\n\n\n