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Password Strength Calculator

Measure password entropy and estimated crack time.

Password shape
chars

Entropy

71 bits

Strong

Offline crack time (10B/sec)

5,115 years

Possible combinations

62^12

Assumes random characters. Real words, patterns, and reuse cut effective entropy drastically.

Length beats complexity

Entropy is length × log₂(alphabet), so length compounds where symbols only add: 16 lowercase letters (75 bits) beat 8 full-charset characters (52 bits). Four random common words — the passphrase pattern — reach ~77 bits and stay typeable.

The assumptions that matter

These times assume truly random characters and an offline attacker at 10 billion guesses per second. Human-chosen passwords fall to dictionary attacks far faster, and reused passwords fall instantly via breach lists — a password manager fixes both failure modes.

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