Re:Stop forcing arbitrary password rules
by mrb on Saturday October 24, 2015 @05:27AM
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It calculates 18 quintillion years because howsecureismypassword.net is simplistic and doesn't realize english words are being used. It categorizes each character into some categories (see https://howsecureismypassword.net/assets/js/app.min.js):
It sees the password is 22 characters long, and contains a-z chars (lowercase) and a space char (other symbols) so it estimates each char is drawn from a set of 26+19 = 45 letters. And it assumes the default bruteforcing speed is 4 billion passwords per second. So:
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