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[Discuss] deadmanish login?



On 2/4/2017 9:19 PM, Kent Borg wrote:
> It doesn't matter how a password scores according to some elegant 
> information theory, what matters is how easy that password is for 
> someone to guess. And though password guessing has progressed mightily 
> in the last few years, it is still an expensive and subtle activity, 
> well beyond what some little piece of open source software is up to 
> instantly measuring.

It's not expensive and it's not subtle when you can build an entry level
password guessing rig for about $5K:
http://www.netmux.com/blog/how-to-build-a-password-cracking-rig

-- 
Rich P.



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