Test your Passwords

This scary site allows you to test passwords before you start using them. I suppose a 1000 year to crack password would be fun to tell your friends about but even a few hours to crack would be a great start.

Just add spaces after your password they are really hard to guess (try 5 spaces after your regular password for fun).

I don't believe this website sends anything back to the owner since :

a) it would be pointless to just collect passwords

b) the code is visible to all for review and it has not been reported by anyone.

Nice job Small Hadron Collider nice stats too! Steve.

Check it out here : How Secure Is My Password?

IS THIS SAFE?

It is actually. I'm not harvesting passwords into an EVIL database. Of course that's exactly the sort of thing I would say if I were harvesting them. And it wouldn't be hard to do it: a couple of lines of code and I'd have all your passwords. MWUHAHAHAHAHAA! But, to be honest, I don't know what I'd do with them. Make a cake perhaps.

...No data ever travels from your computer back to the website. You can check this by loading up the webpage and then turning off your internet connection. You'll still be able to use the website to your heart's content.

... 10,000,000, is an approximate number of passwords a regular computer might be able to try every second.

Frequently Asked Questions » How Secure Is My Password?

Pick a Safe Password -- a strategy for safe secure computing : wolfram.org

Technical type tips: Password FAQ, Passphrase FAQ by Diceware.