Have you ever thought , the password which you use to access your email or any web service, How strong your password is?
The basic technology which is used to crack password is brute force.
Brute force is a technique which tries the different combination of word,numeric and special character to break your password.
Bruteforce technique was one of the widely used technique which is used by hackers to decrypt the password in the early 1990’s
Even today Brute force is the technique which is used to decrypt or break the password for remote computer and SSH servers.
Getting back to the point , a strong password is one which use the numeric, characters , and special symbols Because this will require more time to break the password rather then using a simple password which is just a word or consists of letters.
Brute force calculator check the strength of your password and give you an estimation that how long its going to take a system built in 2008 to brute force your password.
Link: Brute Force calculator
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Thanks for the link to Brute Force calculator. I am gonna go check how strong is my password
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@ Salwa I was using the plain character password before this and then I realized how unsafe I’m with that password so I shifted to more complex password!
nice one sir….i m gonna check..