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Pretty cool tool! My passphrases (omitting spaces between words) get a score of 2. But if I drop the vowels, the score goes to 4 and crack time to 'centuries'.

I wonder if this is a good way to create passphrases. Anybody want to chime in?

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Originally was going to chastise you for typing your actual passwords into a random demo version that could have been modified in whatever way. But since it's all js I guess it's a simple matter to verify it's not transmitting anything. Although I guess it could be some really devious thing where it saves the info in a cookie to be snagged later or some such. Did you check the JS code? ;)

Don't use phrases. Use one really strong password that you can remember with a tool like KeePass. Generate random long passwords (30 characters) for everything and store them in KeePass.

I've recently converted all my accounts to that - my passwords are practically unbreakable, at least with the current tech. I feel way more secure than with the shit I had to memorize before.

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