Learn why strong, secure paswords matter by seeing how easy it is to crack passwords with a common tool. Longer, more complex passwords are best, and you'll see why.

Alright, so let's crack some passwords I've constructed to see how easy it is. To do this, I will use Hashcat, a free and open-source password cracker available for anyone to use.

To start cracking Vault passwords using Hashcat, you need three pieces of information: 'Key-Value', 'Iteration count', and 'Account email address'. These should be formatted as 'Key-Value ...

Overall, the longer and the more complex the passwords, the longer it takes to crack them, with the most complex eight-character passwords taking 164 years.

“thereisnofatebutwhat­wemake”—Turbo-charged cracking comes to long passwords Cracking really long passwords just got a whole lot faster and easier.