How long to crack that password ?

Rémi Lavedrine
1 min readMar 30, 2021

Password is one of your best lines of defense against attackers, but they can crack it from you very, very quickly. 💨

But how quickly a hacker will be able to crack it. 🔓
The answer is, it’ll be pretty quick if I don’t use lots of upper case, lower case, numbers and special characters. ㊙️
We watch it together in the video. 📺

This will allow you to set the correct level of complexity for your own passwords.
You will see the gap is not huge to go from a password that cracks instantly to a password that takes several tens (hundreds) of years to be cracked.

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Originally published at https://dev.to on March 30, 2021.

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