You need to keep in mind that all protection is kept by your password. So these are the suggestions for good passwords: it should be not shorter than 8 characters; it should be random, without any meaning; make your password Case sensitive; use special characters like these _,&,~,(,.
The results of Brute Force attack calculations using Pentium 4, 1.6 GHz, 512 cache:
| Password length | Time to break - if your password contains only small English letters (26 characters) | Time to break - if your password contains small and big English letters, digits and space (63 characters) |
| 5 symbols | 1 hour 50 min | 6 days |
| 6 symbols | 1 day 20 hours | 1 year |
| 7 symbols | 46 days | 68 years |
| 8 symbols | 3.3 years | 4032 years |
| 9 symbols | 90 years | 252000 years |
| 10 symbols | 2304 years | .. |
| ... | ||
| 16 symbols | 1872000 years | .... |
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