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On 11/10/2015 02:23 PM, Stanislav Nikolov wrote: |
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> On 11/10/2015 09:17 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: |
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>> On 11/10/2015 02:00 PM, Jeff Smelser wrote: |
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>>> I guess from this your assuming that everyones passwords that |
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>>> have been hacked are god, birthdays and such? |
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>> Again: assume that I'm not an idiot, and that I know how to choose |
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>> a long, random password. It cannot be brute-forced. And if it |
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>> could, adding an SSH key encrypted with a password of the same |
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>> length would provide no extra security. |
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> Are you sure you know how such keys work? An extremely 15 character |
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> password (Upper case, lower case, numbers, 8 more symbols) gives you |
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> ~4747561509943000000000000000 combinations |
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And since no one seems to believe me, if you could try a million |
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passwords a second (over the network!), it would take you about |
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75,272,093,955,210 years to try half of those combinations. |
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