So I was checking out the LastPass website to see what I can learn. I stumbled across the “Security Challenge” – a series of tests run on your passwords to test their ‘strength’, if you have duplicates, and a few other things.

I’d actually forgotten how many websites I used the same password for (old old accounts from pre-security conscious days) and often a really short one.

I went through and after about 20 minutes I removed all duplicates and significantly upped the average character count for breaking into any single account.

I suggest anyone using LastPass runs the benchmark and sees how good they’ve been.

Here’s what I’m up to. I wouldn’t take the score too seriously, it seems like the more passwords you have the more secure you are, which is silly. Just go through and make sure you’ve got no duplicates and a decent average length.

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Published

23 June 2012

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