Question

Find a password that "breaks" zxcvbn, i.e. it is probably easy to crack but zxcvbn reports that it has a cracking time of centuries. If you have multiple ideas on this, clearly mark just ONE as your submission. Explain why your password should be easy to crack.

Answer 1

Answer:

C0r3CtPP4zzu0Rd

Explanation:

zxcvbn is a password security and "strength" meter. This meter can identify password repetitions and patterns that will make it easier for some of your passwords to be discovered and your account to be hacked. This meter has as easy passwords to be discovered passwords that have dates, popular words or phrases, personal names and etc.

For zxcvbn to consider a password as strong, which would take centuries to be discovered, it is recommended that two words are used. In addition, these words must have a combination of uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers and symbols.

In this case, we can consider that the password "C0r3CtPP4zzu0Rd" is an easy password that could break zxcvbn.

If you pay attention, the password shown above is a code for the words "correct password", however, there is a combination of letters, numbers and symbols that follow a logical sequence and easy to be memorized, however zxcvbn would consider a * that it would take centuries to be discovered.