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Originally posted by analog
For me, I have several that i use. contains no actual word and has numbers. no way in hell anyone could crack it.
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Well, if it only uses alpha-numeric characters, then there are 61 options for each octet.
If your password is 8 characters long, this means there are 191707312997281 possibilities. Using brute force alone, this could be cracked by a desktop PC in 84.49 days.
Not likely, but far from "no way in hell".
Oh, and this doesn't take into account heuristics and statistical probabilities of the string location within the "database" of possible alternatives.
Mr Mephisto
EDIT: Of course, this time will increase dramatically for each additional character above 8...