http://howsecureismypassword.net/
Here’s a great tool to demonstrate password strength to staff, students, family and friends. Try out your usual favourites and see how they fair!
I ran some of my trusty passwords through it and found pretty much what I expected.
One regular password I use for sites that I don’t care about much in terms of security came up as taking 13 minutes to crack.
The next regular password I use, which is alphanumeric, rated a score of 2 hours.
My best score ? 15 thousand years for a desktop PC to crack! Nice!
Regrettably my online banking password failed miserably – at 3 minutes!! Ok, back to the password drawing boards for me.
No idea how valid this is. But it’s useful for making people think!
Thanks for the fun tip from Yvonne @southoz
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judyoconnell.com 
Thanks Judy for this post – I am a bit behind reading your blog
However, your password post is on our next staff meeting agenda. Serious stuff re: your best password would take 15,000 yrs to crack – well done!
Whoooohooo – I have just tried my super dooper 14 character school technical password and it stated that it would take 19 million years to crack!
Seriously safe in other words:) thanks for your work Judy
Lesleigh
Wow! What was the password that would take 15 thousand years to crack?
Paul, I’m never going to tell you that one! But I was pretty pleased with myself for having discovered it …. AND I can remember it too!
It was worth a try 🙂
An great update from Colin @beckcollect is A Password Security Theory http://www.mactalk.com.au/2010/09/06/a-password-security-theory/ An excellent read!
Thanks for the share! That was a fun run.
FYI, I couldn’t find the link, so I clicked on @southoz and found it on her Twitter page. http://howsecureismypassword.net/
Oh of course – I got distracted and left off the link! Thanks for the quick respond – I’ve fixed it up now for others.