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<blockquote data-quote="pigoo3" data-source="post: 1789014" data-attributes="member: 56379"><p>Very very interesting info Rod...thanks!<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>I have not read that article yet...will have to see if I can track it down. Only thing I see that I might question...is what was written way back in 2003 still 100% valid in 2018. A lot of things have changed since 2003...namely:</p><p></p><p>- Do hackers, crackers, etc now have more sophisticated tools to break passwords (most likely).</p><p>- Given the vastly increased performance of computers...hackers can probably crunch through numbers so much faster trying to break a password.</p><p></p><p>I don't disagree with the findings mentioned (nonsense statements can make great passwords). But maybe it's possible to break those passwords faster in 2018...than back in 2003. Maybe instead of 550 years to crack that password...maybe it's now 5 years. Which is still lots of time...and maybe more of a purely academic discusssion. But then that could also mean that the password that took 3 days to crack in 2003...might be crackable in less than an hour in 2018.</p><p></p><p>- Nick</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pigoo3, post: 1789014, member: 56379"] Very very interesting info Rod...thanks!:) I have not read that article yet...will have to see if I can track it down. Only thing I see that I might question...is what was written way back in 2003 still 100% valid in 2018. A lot of things have changed since 2003...namely: - Do hackers, crackers, etc now have more sophisticated tools to break passwords (most likely). - Given the vastly increased performance of computers...hackers can probably crunch through numbers so much faster trying to break a password. I don't disagree with the findings mentioned (nonsense statements can make great passwords). But maybe it's possible to break those passwords faster in 2018...than back in 2003. Maybe instead of 550 years to crack that password...maybe it's now 5 years. Which is still lots of time...and maybe more of a purely academic discusssion. But then that could also mean that the password that took 3 days to crack in 2003...might be crackable in less than an hour in 2018. - Nick [/QUOTE]
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