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Peter Kleiweg
in.aqua.scribis at nl.invalid
Tue Aug 31 13:54:05 EDT 2004
Jeremy Bowers schreef:
> On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 21:57:02 -0700, G. S. Hayes wrote:
> > Something related to think about: if most users use only letters in their
> > passwords, making the passwords case-insensitive potentially makes it take
> > crackers HALF the time to crack a password by brute force.
>
> Much worse than that.
>
> Assuming 8 letters only:
>
> Both cases: 52 ^ 8: 53,459,728,531,456 (53 trillion)
A bit less: 53 billion
> One case : 26 ^ 8: 208,827,064,576 (208 billion)
208 billiard
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