Timeline for At what length does a password stop making sense?
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| Dec 9, 2013 at 13:12 | history | edited | JZeolla | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 9, 2013 at 12:08 | history | edited | JZeolla | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 9, 2013 at 12:07 | comment | added | JZeolla | Yeah, I did. I fixed it... For some reason when I copied it from my working document it didn't bring the ^. It was also wrong in the second example, it had * 1088 years. | |
| Dec 9, 2013 at 5:20 | comment | added | Adi | @StephenTouset Yeah, it wasn't until after I posted my comment that I realized the possibility. | |
| Dec 9, 2013 at 4:59 | comment | added | Stephen Touset | Without doing the math myself, I suspect he meant 10^100 years. | |
| Dec 9, 2013 at 4:51 | comment | added | Adi | I just have a hunch that your calculations are extremely incorrect. Having 462bit and 39429 years in the same sentence sounds very ridiculous to me. A lowercase English alphabet randomly-generated password with an entropy of 462 bit has a length of about 97 characters. The search space for that is is somewhere in the 10^137. That's 1 with one hundred thirty freaking 7 zeros. That's gigantic!!! GIGANTIC! At 7 billion hashes/second? Heh, try something like 10^119 years. | |
| Dec 9, 2013 at 2:37 | history | answered | JZeolla | CC BY-SA 3.0 |