is this a good science fair project?

Question

for 8th grade

PROJECT TITLE: Powerful Passwords: An Evaluation of Password Security

Purpose - The purpose of this project is to investigate which kinds of passwords are most secure



First I ask 4 people to create 84 different passwords, 16 passwords of 6 different types. The different types were 1-4 character words, 5-8 character words, 3 character letter and number combinations, 4 character letter and number combinations, 3 character letter/number/symbol combinations, and 4 character letter/number/symbol combinations. Each of the passwords use to protect a Word document file. Next I usedAdvanced Word 2000 Password Recovery, a password cracking program, to try to crack each of the passwords on the Word files. Then I record the time it took to crack each password.
good or not?

Answer 1

That doesn't sound too bad. Maybe use the password cracking thingy for only half and see if the people you ask can guess the other passwords. Proving not only that a computer can crack passwords, but a human can too. Maybe do a bit of a survey on the most common passwords. There is heaps on info about what passwords not to use eg birthday, name etc