• German Spy Museum

    July 24, 2025 in Germany ⋅ ☁️ 73 °F

    Next, I went to the German Spy Museum. It was geared more for kids, but it had some cool things for adults, too. There was a password strength calculator. I have a password manager which generates random passwords that are up to 30 characters (caps, lower, numbers, and special). There is a "master password" to access mine. I put in a similar password (same structure of characters), and it said it would take 4 million years for a computer to crack it. I'm not sure how true that is, but it made me feel good! Checking online, one site said 15 years, and another said 2 million.
    They had a cryptex like in the DaVinci Code and taught you how to crack a safe!
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