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Friday, April 07, 2006

Password Recovery Speeds

"This document shows the approximate amount of time required for a computer or a cluster of computers to guess various passwords. The figures shown are approximate and are the maximum time required to guess each password using a simple brute force 'key-search' attack, it may (and probably will) be possible to guess correctly without trying all the combinations shown using other methods of attack or by having a 'lucky guess'."

My default Web site login passwords could be cracked in aproximately 163 days. For my home network, I'm using 63-character length passwords our of a 96 character set. (Those aren't even in the chart.) .How good are yours?

1 Comments:

At Fri Apr 07, 01:15:00 PM , mooreted said...

Fortunately, my password is above the 7.2 Quadrillion level.

 

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