Azio’s Computer Log

Today I thought I’d share this very popular article, “how fast can they crack your password?”, a lot of you might have seen this on digg.com already (it got a whopping 3000+ diggs). I guess this stuff is important, you really need to be familiar with how many characters are required for your system (arguably functionality/ease versus security). Basically though, for that, you will need a list showing you just how long it would take to go through *every* combination of that character password, remember that its very important, it can actually be a lot faster. Your best bet is to choose the class above of whatever security you think you need. (For a Military system you’d want SHA-512 minimum and maybe 126character passwords, for a webserver you might want to settle with a mere 15 or 20 chars, but this is open to debate. So really how secure do you want your system to be? [more..]

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