Lesson Plan Title: Password Strength

Concept / Topic To Teach:

Accounts are only as secure as there passwords. Most users have the same weak password everywhere. If you want to protect them against brute-force-attacks your application should have good requirements for passwords. The password should contain lower case letters, capitals and numbers. The longer the password, the better.

General Goal(s):

For this exercise, your job is to test several passwords on https://howsecureismypassword.net/.

Solution:
Open your browser on https://howsecureismypassword.net/. Copy the first password in the field and the page will automatically be updated.


Password checker


You will get get the result of the check.


The result


Do this with all of the six given passwords.

Here are the results you get:

Password = 123456: 0 seconds
Password = abzfezd: 2 seconds
Password = a9z1ezd: 19 seconds
Password = aB8fEzDq: 15 hours
Password = z8!E?7: 20 days
Password = My1stPassword!:Redd: 364 quintillion years