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Password Strength (xkcd.com)
3 points by quyleanh on Oct 23, 2023 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


is it really?

https://www.passwordmonster.com/

* correcthorsebatterystample => Time to crack your password: 61 centuries

* Tr0ub4dor&3 => Time to crack your password: 46 years

same in https://bitwarden.com/password-strength/

but not in https://www.uic.edu/apps/strong-password

I remember an 'old school' guessing was just using vocabularies: so I would not suggest this to my colleagues :(




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