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Thanks for the overview. It'd be nice if they could make a password strength checker that got the exact strength instead of an estimate, that would be cool (bec

• jerf 13y ago
  There isn't really an "exact strength"; a password cracker exhaustively trying all permutations of letters and numbers will never find your password with !, a password cracker exhaustively trying all combinations of letters and numbers will take a very long to find "electroencephalograph" whereas a dictionary attack will find it very quickly if that's in the dictionary, etc. It depends on the order the cracker is trying the passwords in.
• thedufer 13y ago
  "exact strength" depends on the algorithm being used. If you're just checking dictionary words, some passwords would be really weak; if you're exhaustively checking every combination of characters, the same passwords would be pretty strong, and a different set would be very weak.