How to choose the password?
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:
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Password length
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Time to break - if your password contains only small English letters (26 characters)
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Time to break - if your password contains small and big English letters, digits and space (63 characters)
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5 symbols
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1 hour 50 min
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6 days
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6 symbols
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1 day 20 hours
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1 year
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7 symbols
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46 days
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68 years
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8 symbols
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3.3 years
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4032 years
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9 symbols
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90 years
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252000 years
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10 symbols
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2304 years
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16 symbols
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1872000 years
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