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How Secure Is My Password Lab

The document outlines a lab exercise focused on evaluating password strength using online tools and understanding the significance of strong passwords. Students will test various sample passwords for their vulnerability to cracking, identify weaknesses, and discuss strategies for improving password security. Additionally, there is an optional section on simulating a brute-force attack using Python to demonstrate the impact of password length and complexity on security.

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How Secure Is My Password Lab

The document outlines a lab exercise focused on evaluating password strength using online tools and understanding the significance of strong passwords. Students will test various sample passwords for their vulnerability to cracking, identify weaknesses, and discuss strategies for improving password security. Additionally, there is an optional section on simulating a brute-force attack using Python to demonstrate the impact of password length and complexity on security.

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Practice Lab Exercise: How Secure is My Password?

Objective:
To understand the importance of strong passwords and evaluate the strength of different
passwords using online tools and basic password-cracking logic.

Learning Outcomes
By the end of this lab, students should be able to:
- Evaluate password strength using online tools.
- Understand the importance of password complexity.
- Identify common weak password patterns.
- Apply best practices in creating secure passwords.

Tools Required:
- Internet access
- Web browser
- https://howsecureismypassword.net/
- Optional: Python (for basic brute-force simulation demo)

Part A: Password Strength Testing


Steps:

1. Open your browser and go to: https://howsecureismypassword.net/


2. Try entering the following sample passwords (DO NOT enter your real password):
- 123456
- iloveyou
- password@123
- MyNameIsJohn2024
- M!n$d#Y@2025
3. Observe how long it would take a computer to crack each password.
4. Note down the results in the following table:

Password Estimated Time to Crack Your Observation

123456 Instantly Easy to crack

Iloveyou Instantly
one of the top 3 most used
password
password@123 though it shows 200 years, it is incorrect as
one of the top 10 most frequently seen
200 years
passwords its quite easy to crack in reality
MyNameIsJohn2024 37 B years
it's a fair point to say, it takes long to crack this code but if i
have the prior information on the owner of password i would
say it takes an hour at max to crack this password
M!n$d#Y@2025 i would say this is quite accurate as it's not the human
34 K years cracking but the computer and even the prior info on the
owner wouldn't help the case any
Part B: Identify Weaknesses

Discuss:

1. What patterns make passwords weak?


2. Which password was the strongest and why?
3. How can we improve a password’s security?

Part C: Optional – Brute Force Simulation in Python

Code Sample:

import itertools
import string
import time

# Define target password


target = "ab"

# Define character set (lowercase only for demo)


charset = string.ascii_lowercase

start = time.time()
attempts = 0

for length in range(1, 5): # Try lengths from 1 to 4


for guess in itertools.product(charset, repeat=length):
attempts += 1
if ''.join(guess) == target:
print(f"Password found: {''.join(guess)} in {attempts} attempts")
end = time.time()
print(f"Time taken: {round(end - start, 2)} seconds")
break
else:
continue
break
Discussion Questions:
- How does password length affect cracking time?
- What if we increase the character set to include numbers and symbols?

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