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How It Works
It's just a bit of simple maths:
(number of possible characters to the power of length of the password) divided by calculations per second
Length of the password is nice and easy to work out: it's just the number of characters in your password. For example 'cat' has 3 characters and 'monkey' has 12
"Monkey has 12?", you ask
"No it doesn't", I reply, "It's got 6. You should probably learn to count."
Calculations per second is a bit more of a rough figure. On the site it's set to 10,000,000, which is an approximate number of passwords a regular computer might be able to try every second. But it's going to depend on the computer as well as what the password is for. A lot of sites and programs won't let you try more than three passwords in the space of ten minutes, which would render a brute force attack pretty useless.
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.The bit of code that does the calculations is done in JavaScript. And JavaScript is a "client-side" language. That means it runs on your computer – not on ours. 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.
However, for the super-paranoid among you, you could just type in something a bit like your password rather than your actual password. In fact, that's probably a good idea anyway. Just in case I'm lying.
